All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.

He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

John bore witness 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 man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.

Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel."

John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him.

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

And when the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

This beginning of signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and showed forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him there.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

They left the city and set out to go to him.

Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.

And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill.

Accordingly when he looked up, and perceived a great crowd was coming unto him,

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do.

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, said to him.

When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.

Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

"He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him.

Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.

After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.