through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him.

he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')

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

They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

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

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel."

And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and see." So they went and saw where he stayed, and stayed with him the rest of that day ??it was then about four in the afternoon.

In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "When you were under that fig tree, before ever Philip called you, I saw you."

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

and said to him, "Everybody serves the good wine first, and then the poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

Jesus performed this, the first of his Signs, at Cana in Galilee, thereby displaying his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

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?"

that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

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!"

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

God is Spirit, and his worshippers must worship him in Spirit and in reality."

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

They set out from the town on their way to him.

Meanwhile the disciples pressed him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something."

So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?"

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

Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans arrived, they pressed him to stay with them; he did stay there two days,

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe."

Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey.

And on the road his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk."

They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

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!

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

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

Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

so they agreed to take him on board, and the boat instantly reached the land they were making for.

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

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?"

Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

"Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always."

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven."

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,

(He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him ??and he was one of the twelve.)

After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do;

(for even his brothers did not believe in him).

At the festival the Jews were in quest of him, saying, "Where is he?"

And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

For fear of the Jews, however, nobody spoke of him in public.

He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ?

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,