He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

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

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

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

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

And many more believed because of what he said.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

because if you believed Moses, you would believe me, since he wrote about me.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling 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 also live because of me.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

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

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

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

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.

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.

Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep.

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

because you will always have the destitute with you, but you won't always have me."

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

"In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

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

They'll do this because they haven't known the Father or me.

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

of sin, because they don't believe in me;

of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;