John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'"

This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

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."

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

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.

The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

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

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

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

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

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

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.

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

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 have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!"

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.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

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'?"

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

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

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

They replied, "You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!"

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

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."

So the Jewish leaders began to say, "Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

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.

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

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."

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

Jesus replied, "Your brother will come back to life again."

Martha said, "I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come and see."

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Jesus said, "This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' now I tell you the same.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment --

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

and he went back into the governor's residence and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

"Come, have breakfast," Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord.

Jesus replied, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!"

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"