He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

So they asked him again, "What are you then? Elijah?" And he answered, "Of course, I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

He said, "I am a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Make the road straight for the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."

John answered them, "I am baptizing only in water. There is standing among you One with whom you are not acquainted.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

You can bear testimony to me yourselves that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent as His announcer.'

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

Then He answered them, "My Father is still working, and so am I."

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

However, I do not accept mere human testimony, but I am saying this that you may be saved.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.

but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never get hungry, and whoever believes in me will never get thirsty.

Then the Jews began to grumble about His saying, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

I am the bread that gives life.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to it yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

You will then look for me, but you will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going."

What does He mean by saying, 'You will look for me and will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going'?"

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

Then the Jews began to say, "He is not going to kill Himself, is He? Is that why He said, 'Where I am going you can never come'?"

He continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this present world; I do not belong to this present world.

So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

Yes, He who sent me is ever with me; I am not alone, because I always practice what pleases Him."

I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

However, I am not seeking honor for myself; there is One who is seeking it for me, and He is judge.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So Jesus said to them again: "I most solemnly say to you, I am the door to the sheepfold myself.

I am the door myself. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.

I am the good shepherd myself. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my own life for my sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my own life to take it back again.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."

Jesus answered them, "I have already told you so, but you do not believe me. The works which I am doing on my Father's authority are my credentials,

If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --

do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me.

But if I am doing so, even if you will not believe me, believe the deeds, that you may come to know and continue to know that the Father is in union with me and I am in union with the Father."

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,

Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

And I know that His orders mean eternal life. So whatever I speak I am speaking as the Father has told me."

Jesus answered him, "You do not now understand what I am doing, but by-and-by you will learn."

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right in calling me so, for that is what I am.

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

One of the disciples, whom Jesus specially loved, was sitting very close to Jesus at His right.

Jesus answered, "It is that one to whom I give the piece of bread when I dip it in the dish." So He dipped it into the dish and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

Dear children, I am to be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but, as I told the Jews, so I now tell you, you cannot just now go where I am going.

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me just now, but you will later follow me."

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.

And you know the way to the place where I am going."

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.

You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.

I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

I will not leave you helpless orphans. I am coming back to you.

In just a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will be seeing me. Because I am to live on, you too will live on.

At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.

"I have told you this while I am still staying with you.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So you too are now in sorrow, but I am going to see you again, and then your hearts will be happy, and no one can rob you of your happiness.

I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

Listen! A time is coming, yea, it is right here, when you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet, I am not alone, because the Father is with me.