He was with God in the beginning.

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

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

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

He is the One coming after me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

I didn’t know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel.”

And John testified, “I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him.

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means “Anointed One”),

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him, “Follow Me!”

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” And they did.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

He must increase, but I must decrease.”

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

He left Judea and went again to Galilee.

He had to travel through Samaria,

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

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

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

“I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

Many more believed because of what He said.

After two days He left there for Galilee.

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, 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 valid.

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

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

Then a high wind arose, and the sea began to churn.

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

But He said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid!”