John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

One who is to come after me, whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to untie."

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

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."

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time is not yet come."

His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he may tell you to do, do it."

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'

If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

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

Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

"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."

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

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

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.

"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.

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

"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

"you will not come to me that you may have life.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

"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;

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;

"I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again.

"But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

"Do not find fault with me among yourselves,"

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

"For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

"He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.

"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.

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?"

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

"My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand.

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come."

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

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.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

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."

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

"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?

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"But I now him, because I am from him and he sent me."

Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.

"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

"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."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

"I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me."

"Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also."

Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come."

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

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,

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"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.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

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

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.