There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

John was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

This happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

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

John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples.

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").

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

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

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

Jesus told him, "Take care of my sheep." He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!"