“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

“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.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

“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 still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.