The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John answered them, saying, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not know.

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

Therefore Jesus answered them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.

There was much murmuring among the crowds concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the crowd astray."

The Jewish leaders therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

Therefore a division arose again among the Jewish people because of these words.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim; and stayed there with his disciples.

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

Then they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"