Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

The woman said to him, "I see that you are a prophet, sir.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

The people went out of the town to see him.

Meanwhile the disciples urged him, saying, "Master, eat something."

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, another of his disciples, said to him,

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Then they said to him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

But no one spoke of him in public, for fear of the Jews.

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

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

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

The Pharisees heard the people saying these things about him in whispers, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him.

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?