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

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

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,

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

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?"

You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there,

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

"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.

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

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.

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

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

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

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."

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."

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.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

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

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

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

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

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

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

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."

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

No one is taking it from me; 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 is what my Father has commanded me."

What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

therefore he got up from the table, removed his outer robe, and took a towel and fastened it around his waist.

If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him."

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

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

"I have told you this to keep you from falling away.

Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

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

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you,