who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

And they asked him, "Then who [are] you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

"why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elias, nor any other prophet?"

John answered them, "I am baptizing only in water. There is standing among you One with whom you are not acquainted.

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

Then He said to them, "Come, and you will see." So, they went and saw where He was staying and they stayed with Him that day. It was about ten o'clock in the morning. [Note: Hour designations in this book are being calculated by Roman time, but this would have been

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

and he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said: You are Simon, the son of Jonah; you shall be called Cephas (which, when translated, is Rock).

Nathaniel replied to him, "Can anything worthwhile come from Nazareth?" [Note: Nazareth had a bad reputation and Jewish writings made no prediction of a prophet coming from that area. See John 7:52]. Philip answered him, "Come and see."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!"

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

His mother saith unto them who are ministering - Whatsoever he may say to you, do!

and said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

There in the Temple [area] He found people selling oxen, sheep and pigeons. [i.e., for use as sacrifices]. Also cashiers were sitting there. [Note: These people exchanged foreign coins so visitors to Jerusalem could make purchases and pay taxes].

Then Jesus made a whip out of strands of rope and drove all of the sheep and oxen out of the Temple [area], dumped out the cashiers' money and overturned their tables.

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Jesus said to him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, a person cannot see the kingdom of God [i.e., enter it. See verse 5], unless he is born from above [Note: The words "from above" are also used in verse 31, but in this place they could also mean "again," or "anew" and refer to the source of a person's second birth].

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'

Jesus answered him, are you a doctor in Israel, and not know these things?

I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.

If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

but he that doth right, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, because they are agreeable to the will of God.

John [the Immerser] was also immersing people in Aenon, near Salem [Note: These locations are thought to have been in northeastern Judea, near the Jordan River], because there was a lot of water there; so people were coming to be immersed.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

Ye yourselves are witnesses, how that I said, 'I am not Christ: but am sent before him.'

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

but the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.)

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

are you wiser than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, as well as his children, and cattle?

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, 'I have no husband,'

because you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not [really] your husband. So, you have told the truth."

the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

but the time is coming, nay, is very nigh, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for they are the worshippers which he requires.

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entred into their labours.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

In these lay a great multitude of those who are feeble, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the movement of the water.

When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Truly, truly, I tell you, the time is coming, and is now [actually] here, when those who are [spiritually] dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear [i.e., and heed His message] will have [spiritual] life.

let not this surprize you: for the time is coming, when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and they that have done good,

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

You search the scriptures, for you think by their means to have eternal life, and they are the very writings which do testify of me.

And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

for this I know of you, that you are not possess'd with any love for God.

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

how can you believe, who are catching at honour one from another, regardless of that glory that comes from God only?

Do not think that I [am the One who] will accuse you before the Father. There [already] is one who accuses you: Moses, [the very one] in whom you have placed your hope [for salvation].

If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

But, if, in his writings, ye are not believing, how, in my sayings, will ye believe?

And a great multitude followed him because they saw his signs, which he did on those who are infirmed.

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat?

Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little portion.

there is a lad here, who hath five barley-loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.

Jesus therefore having perceived that they are going to come and seize him, so that they might make him king, departed onto the mountain himself alone.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

They said, therefore, unto him - What are we to do, that we may be working the works of God?

So they asked Him, "What wonder-work then are you going to perform for us to see and so believe in you? What work are you going to do?

All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

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.

I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead:

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness: and are dead.

This is the bread which came from heaven: not as your fathers have eaten manna and are dead. He that eateth of this bread, shall live ever."

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples are grumbling about this, said to them, Does this cause you to stumble?

It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him.

Jesus, therefore, said unto the twelve - Are, ye also, wishing to withdraw?

Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

and we have believed and we have acknowledged that you are the Christ, the son of God.

So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

For no one does anything in secret and [yet] he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}. If you are doing these [things], reveal yourself to the world!"

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping that law. If so, why are you trying to kill me?"

for what do ye attempt to kill me? the people answered, saying, you are mad: who attempts to kill you?

Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

Do not make judgments based [merely] on how things look, but make judgments on how they really are."

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

yet there he is talking publickly without any opposition: are not the rulers convinc'd that he is the Messiah?

Jesus then pursuing his discourse in the temple, rais'd his voice, and said, you know both who I am, and whence I am: however, I am not come of my self, but he that sent me is worthy of belief, him you are unacquainted with.