Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

"Rabbi," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel."

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.

"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

"and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God."

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

"For no one ever does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known publicly. If you are performing these signs, show yourself openly to the world."

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

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? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed.

"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.

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

"For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man.

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

"I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.

"You are not greater than our father Abraham, are you? And he died, and the prophets died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

"You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

"You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?"

Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"

"If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

"He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him.

Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

"I and my Father are one."

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

"Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods?

"If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Jesus replied. "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble, because he beholds the light of this world;

"Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

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

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later."

In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you?

"We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?"

"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

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

"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and said: "Are you questioning one another about my saying, 'A little while and you shall behold me no more, and again a little while you shall see me'?

"Ah," said the disciples, "now you are speaking plain language, and not using figures.

Now we are sure that you know all things, and have no need for any one to question you; by this we believe that you came forth from God."

"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

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.

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.

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