A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John:

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.

Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' ??as the prophet Isaiah said."

"I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.'

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter;

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

and told the pigeon-dealers, "Away with these! My Father's house is not to be turned into a shop!"

Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.

He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,

Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw water with, and it is a deep well; where do you get your 'living' water?

Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

Now our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, whereas you Jews declare the proper place for worship is at Jerusalem."

"Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

God is Spirit, and his worshippers must worship him in Spirit and in reality."

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.

As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead."

Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey.

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes,

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;

I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.

but I know there is no love to God in you;

Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope!

"There is a servant here, with five barley-cakes and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

but he said to them, "It is I, have no fear";

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

"Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always."

But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe.

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father ??he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies.

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."