He existed in the beginning with God.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

John was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

He must become more important, but I must become less important."

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

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

And many more believed because of what he said.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

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

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

because if you believed Moses, you would believe me, since he wrote about me.

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid!"

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."