He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

Jesus answered, "I have done just one deed, and you are all astonished at it.

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

Are you a greater man than our forefather Abraham? Yet he is dead and the prophets are dead. What do you claim to be?"

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."

The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

But I have told you about these things in order that when the time comes for them to happen, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you this at first because I was still staying with you.

I did come from the Father and enter the world. Now I am leaving the world again and going back to the Father."

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

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

Jesus answered, "Did you think of that yourself, or has someone else said it to you about me?"

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us draw for it, to see who gets it." This was to fulfil what the Scripture says: "They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots." This was what the soldiers did.

But when they came to Jesus they saw that he was dead already, and they did not break his legs,

And he stooped down and saw the bandages lying on the ground, but he did not go in.

For they did not yet understand the statement of Scripture that he must rise from the dead.

As she said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was he.

After this Jesus again showed himself to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he did so in this way.

But just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, though the disciples did not know that it was he.

"Throw your net in on the right of the boat," he said to them, "and you will find them." They did so, and they could not haul it in for the quantity of fish in it.

This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.

So the story spread among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; he said, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you?"

There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.