Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

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

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

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."

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

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

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

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."

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

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

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted."

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!"

So Jesus' brothers advised him, "Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show 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 it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

Jesus replied, "I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

They replied, "You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!"

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The Judeans replied, "Aren't we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"

You aren't greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?"

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

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

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

The Father and I are one."

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

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

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are about to do, do quickly."

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."

There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Thomas said, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

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

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other about this -- that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me'?

His disciples said, "Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one --

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

Then Jesus asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go."

The girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You're not one of this man's disciples too, are you?" He replied, "I am not."

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him, "You aren't one of his disciples too, are you?" Peter denied it: "I am not!"

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

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?"

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" Mary replied, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!"