But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all,

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony.

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Jesus answered, "I have done just one deed, and you are all astonished at it.

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be."

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

But because I tell the truth you will not believe me.

I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death."

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."

We know that God does not listen to sinful people, but if a man is devout and obeys God, God will listen to him.

When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

Jesus answered, "Is not the day twelve hours long? If a man travels by day he will not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;

but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep he will recover."

Even now I know that anything you ask God for, he will give you."

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise."