Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Nathanael replied, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

Nicodemus replied, "How can these things be?"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

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

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can't be the Messiah, can he?"

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

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.

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.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

and they said, "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 at the last day.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

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.

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

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."

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

Thomas said, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in 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 -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.