This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

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?"

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

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

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

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.

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.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

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!"

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

Jesus burst into tears.

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you'll cry and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You'll be deeply distressed, but your pain will turn into joy.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."

Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took his cloak as well. The cloak was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

Meanwhile, Mary stood crying outside the tomb. As she cried, she bent over and looked into the tomb.

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.