This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

John gave testimony concerning Him and cried aloud, saying, "This is He of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me,' for He was before me."

He said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

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

The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how would ye believe, if I told you heavenly things?

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Jacob's [spring-fed] well was there so Jesus, tired from His [long] journey, sat down beside the well just as He was [i.e., before doing anything else]. It was about six o'clock in the morning [Note: This would have been

Therefore, the Samaritan woman asked Him, "Why is it that you, being a Jew, would ask a Samaritan woman [like me] for a drink?" (For Jews do not have any fellowship with Samaritans). [Note: The reason for this stemmed from longstanding religious, cultural and ethnic prejudices].

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye would not believe.

Then he asked them what the [exact] time was when his son began to get better. They said to him, "[It was] yesterday at seven o'clock in the morning that the fever left him." [Note: This would have been

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

He was a burning, and a shining light; and ye would for a season have rejoiced in his light.

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one!

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip replied to him, "Two hundred denarii [worth of] bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little."

And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

Then would they have received him into the ship, and the ship was by and by at the land whither they went.

"How," they asked, "are we to do the work that God would have us do?"

"The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger."

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose [any] of them, but raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver him up.

As a result of this many of His disciples abandoned Him, and no longer walked with Him.

Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away?

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

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

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.

This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

but they who heard that, being convicted by their own conscience, they all went old and young one after another, so that Jesus was left alone with the woman, who still kept her place.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

And so I told you that you would die in your sins, for, unless you believe that I am what I am, you will die in your sins."

They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is [worth] nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

Yet you do not know Him, but I know Him fully. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him and keep His word.

Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw [it] and was glad."

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?

If this man were not of God he would be able to do nothing.

They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.

And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

Jesus answered them, "I did tell you, but you would not believe me. The [miraculous] deeds that I am doing in my Father's name [i.e., by the Father's authority] testify about me.

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"

"It is not for any good action that we would stone you," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God."

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This illness will not result in [his] death, but was intended to bring honor to God, so that the Son of God would be honored by it."

His disciples said unto him, "Master, the Jews lately sought means to stone thee, and wilt thou go thither again?"

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.

When Mary came [to the place] where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do [something] so that this man also would not have died?"

Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe [in Me], you will see the glory of God [the expression of His excellence]?”

I know that you always hear me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so they would believe that you sent me."

On saying this, He shouted aloud, "Lazarus, come out!"

And you are not taking into consideration that it would be profitable to you for one man to die for the people, so that the entire nation would not be destroyed."

Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

Then from that day they passed the verdict, that they would kill Him.