All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

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

This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own [things], and his own [people] did not receive him.

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

And they asked him, "Then who [are] you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

And I did not know him, but in order that he could be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with water."

And John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him.

And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me!"

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"

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 about him, "Look! {A true Israelite} in whom is no deceit!"

Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, [when you] were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!"

Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater [things] than these!"

And he said to him, "Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

And [when the] wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!"

and said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"

Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these [things] be?"

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?

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

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

The one 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 this joy of mine is complete.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life--but the wrath of God remains on him.

And it was necessary [for] him to go through Samaria.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me [water] to drink, [since I] am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?

But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!"

The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,'

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

God [is] spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all [things] to us."

They went out from the town and were coming to him.

In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him [anything] to eat, [did they]?"

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, [because they] had seen all [the things] he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

This man, [when he] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you [people] see signs and wonders, you will never believe!"

The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!"

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

Now [as] he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.

So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

Jesus, [when he] saw this one lying [there] and knew that he had [been sick] a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."

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

So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up [your mat] and walk?'"

After these [things] Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished.

in order that all [people] will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?"

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

Philip replied to him, "Two hundred denarii [worth of] bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little."

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

Then Jesus, [because he] knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make [him] king, withdrew again up the mountain [by] himself alone.

So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

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

So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?"

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see [it] and believe you? What will you do?

So they said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread!"

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.

But 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 would betray him.)

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.