(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Many more believed because of what He said.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

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].

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

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

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

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

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

About sin, because they do not believe in Me;

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you.

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.

I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples.

Now the slaves and the temple police had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

So then, because of them, he handed Him over to be crucified.

Therefore they took Jesus away.

Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.