So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

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!"

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.

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

For John had not yet been put in prison.

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.

Now he had to pass through Samaria.

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

"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."

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.

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.

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

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."

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.

So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.

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;

When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat, and they were terrified.

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.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

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.

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

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

One of them, Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus, said to them,

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Now Jesus had referred to his death. But they supposed that he meant a natural falling asleep.

When Jesus arrived he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

and a number of Jews had come out to see Mary and Martha, to condole with them about their brother.

Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!

for Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign.

There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

When he had washed their feet and put on his clothes and taken his place, he said to them again, "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

for some of them thought that as Judas had the purse Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or to have him give something to the poor.

I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

This was to fulfil the saying he had uttered, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

As it was cold the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire, and stood about it warming themselves. And Peter also was among them, standing and warming himself.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom.

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished!" Then bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other who had been crucified with him.

And Nicodemus also, who had first come to Jesus at night, went, taking a roll of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.

There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first went inside too, and saw and was convinced.

and saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus' body had been, one at his head and one at his feet.

Mary of Magdala went and declared to the disciples, "I have seen the Master!" and she told them that he had said this to her.

Then the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, "It is the Master!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he put on his clothes, for he had taken them off, and sprang into the sea.

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

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

He said this to show the kind of death by which Peter was to honor God; and after he had said it he said to Peter, "Follow me!"