The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five colonnades.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were resting on the ground, and in the same way as much of the fish as they wanted.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Our forefathers in the desert had manna to eat; as the Scripture says, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat!'"

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

Then they said to him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

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

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

The crowd answered, "You must be possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?