who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

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

So they asked him again, "What are you then? Elijah?" And he answered, "Of course, I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

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

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

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

This took place at Bethany on the farther side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Nathaniel answered Him, "Teacher, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

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

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and do not know this?

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.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

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

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

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

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Meanwhile the disciples were asking Him, and saying, "Teacher, eat something."

Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

After the two days were over, Jesus left there and went on to Galilee,

So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,

"You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,

but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were sitting on the ground; so too with the fish as much as they wanted.

When they had plenty, He said to His disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, that nothing be wasted."

So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

Other boats from Tiberias had landed near the place where the people ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into boats themselves and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

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.

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?

Our forefathers in the desert ate the manna, as the Scripture says, 'He gave them out of heaven bread to eat.'"

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna, and yet they died.

This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever."

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before?

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

and we have come to believe, yes more, we know by experience, that you are the Holy One of God."

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing;

for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world."

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately.

Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"

The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"

If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

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?"

The crowd answered, "You are certainly under the power of a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

Jesus answered them, "I have done just one deed, and yet you are all dumbfounded!

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath.

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, however, no one will know where He is from."

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

You will then look for me, but you will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going."

The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?

What does He mean by saying, 'You will look for me and will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going'?"

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

So the people were divided because of Him,

Then the Pharisees answered, "You are not swept off your feet too, are you?

None of the authorities or of the Pharisees have believed in Him, have they?

"Our law does not condemn a man before it hears what he has to say and finds out what he is doing, does it?"

Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

Early the next morning, He had come into the temple again, and all the people were gathering around Him. Having sat down, He began to teach them.

In our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say?"