(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

“I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

I am the One who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

“I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

If I am not doing My Father’s works, don’t believe Me.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you.

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

You know the way to where I am going.”

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.

You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

“But now I am going away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.

Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.

They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

May they all be one,
as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You.
May they also be one in Us,
so the world may believe You sent Me.

I am in them and You are in Me.
May they be made completely one,
so the world may know You have sent Me
and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

“Jesus the Nazarene,” they answered.

“I am He,” Jesus told them.

Judas, who betrayed Him, was also standing with them.

When He told them, “I am He,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

“I told you I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you’re looking for Me, let these men go.”

At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

Then the slave girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?”

“I am not!” he said.

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of His disciples too, are you?”

He denied it and said, “I am not!”

“I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”