All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

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!

I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.

Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).

The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.

Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!

In answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these.

And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.

When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.

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

God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

So they went out of the town and came to him.

So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living.

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

And a great number of people went after him because they saw the signs which he did on those who were ill.

This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.

Then they readily took him into the boat: and straight away the boat was at the land to which they were going.

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

Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.