I myself did not know him, but, that he may be made known to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water."

"Come, and you shall see," he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

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

"What do you want with me?" answered Jesus. "My time has not come yet."

And, when the Master of the Feast had tasted the water which had now become wine, not knowing where it had come from--although the servants who had taken out the water knew--

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

For he who lives an evil life hates the light, and will not come to it, for fear that his actions should be exposed;

But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.

"Give me this water, Sir," said the woman, "so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for Salvation comes from the Jews.

"I know," answered the woman, "that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything."

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

And will come out--those who have done good rising to Life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

And, though it is those very Scriptures that bear testimony to me, you refuse to come to me to have life.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him King, retired again up the hill, quite alone.

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving.

For the Bread that God gives is that which comes down from Heaven, and gives Life to the world."

"I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and no one who comes to me will I ever turn away.

For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me.

The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that whoever eats of it will never die.

I am the Living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; and the Bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world."

That is the Bread which has come down from Heaven--not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live for ever."

And he added: "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless enabled by the Father."

"My time," answered Jesus, "is not come yet, but your time is always here.

Go yourselves up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because my time has not yet come."

Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from."

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his Messenger."

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I shall be."

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I shall be'?"

On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

Is not it said in Scripture that it is of the race of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?"

"Even if I bear testimony to myself," answered Jesus, "my testimony is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I am going.

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

We know that God spoke to Moses; but, as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!

The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in greater fullness.

A number of the Jews had come there to condole with Martha and Mary on their brother's death.

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.

"Where have you buried him?" he asked. "Come and see, Master," they answered.

Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice: "Lazarus! come out!"

In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

If we let him alone as we are doing, every one will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our City and our Nationality."

So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: "What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?"

On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm-branches,

And went out to meet him, shouting as they went: "'God save Him! Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord'--The King of Israel!"

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

I have come as a Light into the world, that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

I will not leave you bereaved; I will come to you.

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

But I have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself.

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

And he, when he comes, will bring conviction to the world as to Sin, and as to Righteousness, and as to Judgment;

Yet when he--The Spirit of Truth--comes, he will guide you into all Truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

I came out from the Father, and have come into the world; and now I am to leave the world, and go to the Father."

Now we are sure that you know everything, and need not wait for any one to question you. This makes us believe that you did come from God."

"Listen! a time is coming--indeed it has already come--when you are to be scattered, each going his own way, and to leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heaven-wards, and said: "Father, the hour has come; honor thy Son, that thy Son may honor thee;

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

But now I am to come to thee; and I am speaking thus, while still in the world, that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

"So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."

And, going into the Government House again, he said to Jesus: "Where do you come from?"

"I am going fishing." "We will come with you," said the others. They went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

When they had come ashore, they found a charcoal fire ready, with some fish already on it, and some bread as well.

And Jesus said to them: "Come and breakfast." Not one of the disciples ventured to ask him who he was, knowing that it was the Master.

"If it is my will that he should wait till I come," answered Jesus, "what has that to do with you? Follow me yourself."

So the report spread among the Brethren that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said "If it is my will that he should wait till I come, what has that to do with you?"