So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

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

And yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down out of heaven.

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands outside and listens to him, is very happy to hear the bridegroom's voice. So this happiness of mine is running over.

He continues to bear testimony to what He has actually seen and heard, and yet no one accepts His testimony.

Whoever does accept His testimony has certified with a seal that God is true.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

The Father loves His Son and has put everything in His hands.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes,

For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

He has also granted to Him authority to act as Judge because He is the Son of Man.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

You yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

yes, the Father who has sent me has testified to me Himself. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form;

and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except Him who is from God; of course, He has seen the Father.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me.

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

I know Him myself, because I have come from Him, and He has sent me."

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

"Our law does not condemn a man before it hears what he has to say and finds out what he is doing, does it?"

Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

I do testify to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

Your forefather Abraham exulted in the hope of seeing my day. He has seen it and is glad of it."

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."

do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

but if he travels in the nighttime, he does stumble, because he has no light."

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover."

Jesus said, "Slip the stone aside." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to Him, "Lord, by this time he is offensive, for he has been dead four days."

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified,

The crowd of bystanders on hearing it said that it was thunder; others, however, said, "An angel has spoken to Him!"

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said:

"He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

But Jesus cried aloud, "Whoever believes in me believes not merely in me but in Him who has sent me;

and whoever sees me sees Him who has sent me.

Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.

And I know that His orders mean eternal life. So whatever I speak I am speaking as the Father has told me."

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has taken a bath has no need of washing anything but his feet, but he is clean all over. And you are now clean, though not all of you are."

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

I most solemnly say to you, whoever welcomes any messenger I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes Him who has sent me."

When he had left, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him,

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,

but sorrow has taken complete possession of your hearts, because I have told you these things.

about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.

Everything that the Father has is mine; this is why I have told you, 'He will take the things that are mine and tell them to you.'

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

When Jesus had said all these things, He lifted His eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that He may glorify you,

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

The man who saw it has testified to it -- and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth -- in order that you too may come to believe it.

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."