[Eventually] this Word became a human being and lived among us [Note: The word "lived" here refers to pitching a temporary tent]. (And we saw His splendor; such splendor as belongs to the Father's only Son), full of God's favor and truth.

Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Jesus saith unto her, What is that to me and thee, woman? my hour is not yet come.

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

If I told you earthly things [that is, things that happen right here on earth] and you do not believe, how will you believe and trust Me if I tell you heavenly things?

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

A woman of Samaria comes to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who he is that speaketh to thee, thou wouldest have requested him, and he would have given thee life-giving water.

Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one who drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come here to draw.

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband,'

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

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

For here the proverb holds good--'One sows, another reaps.'

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not receive honor in his own country. [Note: Jesus' reference here to his "own country" means Judea, while in Matt., Mark and Luke it refers to Nazareth].

"Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

Philip answered Him, "Not even two hundred coins' worth of bread would be enough to feed them if everyone ate only a little bit." [Note: The amount here indicated was two hundred days of a farm laborer's pay, or about $14,000 in 1994].

"There is a boy here," said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,

There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what are these for so many?

And He says to them, I am here; fear not.

And when they came across him on the other side of the sea they said, Rabbi, when did you come here?

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

It is the Holy Spirit who [Note: The Greek word here is "that" instead of "who"] gives life [i.e., understanding the spiritual nature of Jesus' teaching can produce spiritual life]; the flesh is of no value [i.e., understanding Jesus' teaching only in a physical sense makes it worthless]. The words I have spoken to you are [from the] Holy Spirit and [they give] life.

Then his brothers said to him, Go down from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do;

Jesus, therefore, saith unto them - My season, not yet, is here; but, your season, at anytime, is ready:

You men go [on] up to the festival, but I am not going up yet [Note: Although "yet" appears in only a few manuscripts, it seems to be the proper idea here], because my time has not yet come. [See verse 6].

And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?

I do know him, because I come from him, and he has sent me here."

But He was speaking of the [Holy] Spirit, whom those who believed in Him [as Savior] were to receive afterward. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (raised to honor).

Then the guards went [back] to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring Him [here with you]?”

And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,

And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?

But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

but they who heard that, being convicted by their own conscience, they all went old and young one after another, so that Jesus was left alone with the woman, who still kept her place.

And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee?

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.

Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --

and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

Jesus saith to her, 'Thy brother shall rise again.'

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."

And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, 'The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

And saying these things, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, Here! Outside!

When many of Mary's Jewish friends, who had come to console her, saw what Jesus had done, they believed in Him.

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

"Why was this perfume not sold for a large sum of money [Note: The amount here was equivalent to three hundred days of a farm laborer's pay, or over $20,000 in 1994] and [then] the money given to poor people?"

Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

Fear not, daughter of Sion; here is your king coming, seated on an ass's colt.

The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal.

The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus answered and said to him: What I am doing you know not now, but you will know here after.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.

Just as you gave Him authority over all mankind, He will give never ending life to all those people [Note: The Greek word here is neuter gender, "all those things"] you have given Him.

I have glorified You [down here] on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.

now that I am coming to thee, while I am here, I make these requests for them, that their joy in me may be compleat.

but Peter was standing at the door without. So the other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, went out and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.

"Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

Now Pilate went outside again and said to the Jewish authorities, "Look, I am bringing him out here to you, so you can know that I do not find him guilty of any crime."

Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

noon] on the Day of Preparation for the Passover Festival. [Note: This would be the day before the Passover Festival]. And Pilate said to the Jews, "Look, [here is] your king!"

Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about noon. He told the Jewish leaders, "Here is your king!"

In the mean time the mother of Jesus, and her sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene, were standing by the cross.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Jesus told her, "Mary!" She turned around and told him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means "Teacher").

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I've seen the Lord!" She also told them what he had told her.

Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

After these things happened Jesus showed Himself to His disciples again at Lake Tiberias. [Note: This was another name for Lake Galilee]. Here is the way He did it.

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord what shall he here do?"

Jesus said to him, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you? come yourself after me.

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?