Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

We have all received one gracious gift after another from his abundance,

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son,

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

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

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.

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

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me has eternal life.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

Then all of them went to their own homes.

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

While he was saying these things, many believed in him.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

Jesus answered them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"