In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

The Word was with God in the beginning.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God."

Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

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

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!"

He continued, "I tell all of you the solemn truth -- you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

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."

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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 has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

"Sir," the woman said to him, "you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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 I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

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

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

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.)

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

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

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.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

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

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

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.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

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.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

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

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me --

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

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

So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

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,

he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.

"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

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."

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the orchard with him?"

The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!"

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.

Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Thomas replied to him, "My Lord and my God!"

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter told them, "I am going fishing." "We will go with you," they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, "Follow me."