All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John.

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

John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him.

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

"He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

After these two days Jesus went away from there into Galilee.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.

This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.

"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)

"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,

"for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world."

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

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

"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"But I now him, because I am from him and he sent me."

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

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

"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

So from that day they plotted to kill him.

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

and taking branches from the palm trees went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. Even Israel's King!"

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.

Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

"AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God,

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him."

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.

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

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father."

Now we are sure that you know all things, and have no need for any one to question you; by this we believe that you came forth from God."

They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;

I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

"You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

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

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called "The Twin," and Nathanael, from Cana of Galilee, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

The rest of the disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore??nly about a hundred yards??ragging in the net full of fish.

This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from among the dead.