because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

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

As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

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

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

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

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there,

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

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.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

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

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

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.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

Jesus answered them, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You don't want to leave, too, do you?"

Jesus answered them, "I chose you, the Twelve, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil."

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

Jesus, however, went to the Mount of Olives.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."