It was he that was with God in the beginning.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

So they filled them full. And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast."

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!"

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

In the Temple he found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their tables.

And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

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.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet ignorant of this?

I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony.

Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

For John had not yet been put in prison.

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

The people went out of the town to see him.

Meanwhile the disciples urged him, saying, "Master, eat something."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

And a great many more believed because of what he said,

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back 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.

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

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.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into 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.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

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

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do.

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Our forefathers in the desert had manna to eat; as the Scripture says, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat!'"

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,

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna and yet they died.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"