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

And from his fullness have we all received, even grace for grace;

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who are you?

And John testified, saying: I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

Jesus answered and said to him: Do you believe, be cause I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree? You shall see greater things than these. And he said to him: Verily, verily I say to you, From this time you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

"When, therefore, he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. And they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had spoken.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come as a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs which thou doest, unless God be with him.

And no man has ascended into heaven, but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man, who is in heaven.

John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.

He that comes from above, is over all. He that is from the earth, is from the earth, and speaks from the earth. He that comes from heaven, is over all;

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and restore his son to health, for he was about to die.

Verily, verily I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

But I receive not testimony from man; yet I say these things that you may be saved.

I receive not honor from men.

How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?

(but there came other boats from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks;)

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Then Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, and gives life for the world.

For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Then the Jews murmured at him, because he said, I am like bread that came down from heaven.

And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How, then, does he say, I came down from heaven?

It is written in the- prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hears from the Father, and learns, comes to me.

Not that any one has seen the Father, but he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

I am the bread that lives, which came down from heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; he that eats this bread shall live forever.

But there are some among you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who he was that would betray him.

And he said: For this reason I said to you: No one can come to me unless it be given him from my Father.

But I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.

He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, from his inner self shall flow rivers of living water.

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the posterity of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?

Does our law condemn a man unless it first hear from him, and know what he does?

They answered and said to him: Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee arises no prophet.

But having heard him, and being convicted by their conscience, they went out, one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

I have many things to say, and to judge with respect to you; but he that sent me is true; and what things I have heard from him, these I speak to the world.

But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not.

Jesus said to them: If God were your father, you would love me; for I came forth from God and have come hither; nor, indeed, did I come of myself, but he sent me.

You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And as he passed by, he saw a man that had been blind from his birth.

Then some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, for he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them?

And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I have received from my Father.

Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father: for which of these works do you stone me?

Then they sought again to take him, but he escaped from their hands.

From that day, therefore, they consulted together to put him to death.

And the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up from the country to Jerusalem, before the passover, to purify themselves.

Then, six days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead.

Therefore, a great multitude of the Jews learned that he was there; and they came, not on account of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

The multitude therefore that was with him, testified that he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this purpose came I to this hour.

Father, glorify thy name. Then there came a voice from heaven: I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become the sons of light. These things spoke Jesus, and he departed, and concealed himself from them.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had delivered all things into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was going to God,

arose from supper, and laid aside his garments, and taking a towel, he girded himself.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. And from this time you know him, and have seen him.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

But when the Paraclete has come, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me;

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

You, therefore, have sorrow now; but I shall see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any one should ask thee. By this we believe that thou hast come forth from God.

Now they know that all things that thou hast given me are from thee;

for the words which thou gavest me I have given them; and they have received them, and they know surely that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send me.

I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the Evil One.

Judas, then, having received the band of soldiers and attendants from the chief priests and Pharisees, came thither with torches and lamps and weapons.

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's pal ace. It was the morning hour. And, in order that they might not be denied, but that they might eat the passover, they did not go into the governor's palace.

Jesus answered: You could have no authority over me, had it not been given you from above. Therefore, he that delivered me to you, has the greater sin.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing, and made four parts, to each soldier a part; and they took his coat also. Now his coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Then he said to the disciple: Behold your mother. And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.

And early on the first day of the week, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

For, as yet, they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

And the other disciples came in a little ship, dragging the net with fishes, for they were not far from the land, only about two hundred cubits.

This was now the third occasion on which Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.