And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

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."

He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony.

Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true.

the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

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

It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people??lind, lame, paralyzed.

But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."

"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.

"And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man.

"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"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.

"I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life.

"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."

"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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.

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

"Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery.

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"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.

"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.

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

"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.

"When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him."

"Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well," replied the disciples.

"I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

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

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day,

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him.

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

"He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!"

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

"but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things.

because the Prince of this world has been judged.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.

since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

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

"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I also have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

And I have declared??nd will declare??hy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

(The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

"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."

And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.

Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."