John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'"

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!"

This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

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

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

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

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me some water to drink."

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

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

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

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

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can't be the Messiah, can he?"

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

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

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

So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

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

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

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

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Jesus replied, "Do not complain about me to one another.

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

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

The one who eats 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.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

So Jesus' brothers advised him, "Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

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

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

Then they began asking him, "Who 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 Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."