for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

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?”

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!”

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

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

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and

Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

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

The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

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.

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

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

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

“Are you a teacher of Israel and don’t know these things?” Jesus replied.

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

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

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

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.”

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

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.

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

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.

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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?”

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!”

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

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.

After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).

So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

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?”

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

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.

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.

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

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.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

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

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves.

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

“I did one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

When Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.