(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

and my Father who has sent me has thus borne witness to me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

I do know him, because I come from him, and he has sent me here."

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be."

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

But even if I do judge, my decision is just, because I am not by myself, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

But because I tell the truth you will not believe me.

Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed, but I have respect for my Father, and you have no respect for me.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death."

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

The man answered, "Who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my life for my sheep.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."