And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.

I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).

Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.

Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living.

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

Now this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that is, the sea of Tiberias.

There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

But he said to them, It is I, have no fear.

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.