And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

But he had to pass through Samaria.

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

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

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

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

But he said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

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.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

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.)

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.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

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?

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

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

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

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

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

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

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!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

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

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."

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

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

After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."