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

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I am His appointed forerunner.'

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

Simon Peter was with Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zabdi, and two others of the Master's disciples.

A third time Jesus put the question: "Simon, son of John, am I dear to you?" It grieved Peter that Jesus asked him the third time, "Am I dear to you?" "Master," he replied, "you know everything, you can see that you are dear to me." "Then feed my much-loved sheep," said Jesus.