For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

John said, "I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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."

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.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

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

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

For in this instance the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

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.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

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?"

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

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.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

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."

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

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

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

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

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"

So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

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.

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

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

For this reason his parents said, "He is a mature adult, ask him.")

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

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

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

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."

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

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

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

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

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

"Why wasn't this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!"

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.