He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

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

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

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

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

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

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

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."

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

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.

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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

He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

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

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.

The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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!"

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.

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

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

Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

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'?"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

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

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

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.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

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!

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

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.

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

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."

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

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

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

"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."

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

He asked, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

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

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

Jesus told them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

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

If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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 came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

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.

I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

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.

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.

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

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

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

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."

Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately came out.

Later on, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, and he came and removed his body.

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.