In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John.

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

The true Light, which enlightens every man, was then coming into the world.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.

One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

There he found in the temple those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there.

So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables,

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

"I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.

And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk."

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

"And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man.

"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)

"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

"Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.

Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

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

Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."

The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man."

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

"For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man.

"And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

"Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes.

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said.

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

"Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"

"I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said,

"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go."

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

"The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

"AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.