The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

John gave testimony 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 human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

"Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me to act has not yet come."

"It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"

Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

"A man cannot obtain anything," replied John, "unless it has been granted to him from Heaven.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.

Any man who has received His testimony has solemnly declared that God is true.

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to His hands.

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

"I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--'the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.

"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' It has five arcades.

The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

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

And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.

"But the testimony which I have is weightier than that of John; for the work the Father has assigned to me for me to bring it to completion--the very work which I am doing--affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

"My time," replied Jesus, "has not yet come, but for you any time is suitable.

The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"

"No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.

"has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

"Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"

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

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone: for I do always what is pleasing to Him."

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

"Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.

His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

in order that the words of Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, "Lord, who has believed our preaching? And the arm of the Lord--to whom has it been unveiled?"

"He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their minds, and should turn, and I should heal them."

And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.

In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

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

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

"Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;

even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages.

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

Now they know that whatever Thou hast given me is from Thee.

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."