On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')

Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.'

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time has not come yet."

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes,

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven."

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father ??he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life.

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."

Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand;

Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet."

"But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"

Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?"

Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?"

The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

This he said, then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to waken him."

"Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better."

Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days."

(I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)"

Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial.

Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.

My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

And I know his orders mean eternal life. Therefore when I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

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

When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

I am telling you this now, before it occurs, so that when it has occurred you may believe who I am.

Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.

of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world:

Behold, the time is coming, it has come already, when you will be scattered to your homes, everyone of you, leaving me alone. But I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,

since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

They know now that whatever thou hast given me comes from thee,

I pray for them ??not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine

I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

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

may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.