This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Nathaniel replied to him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

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?

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

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.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

I and the Father are one."

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

At that time, you'll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you.

Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave 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, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

"I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

So he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus from Nazareth."

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am the one, so if you are looking for me, let these men go."

The young woman at the gate asked Peter, "You aren't one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" "I am not," he replied.

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"

So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

So Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"

They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

If you forgive people's sins, they are forgiven. If you retain people's sins, they are retained."

Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not recorded in this book.