He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

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

Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see.

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

for He had not yet come into the village, but He was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

took palm branches and went out to meet Him, and kept on shouting: "Blessings on Him! Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord; Blessings on the King of Israel!"

This is why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this wonder-work.

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."

Now Judas, too, who betrayed Him, knew the spot, because Jesus had often met with His disciples there.

He said this that the statement He had just made might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Because it was cold, the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire and were standing about it warming themselves; so Peter too was standing among them warming himself.

This made it possible for the word of Jesus to be fulfilled which He spoke to indicate what sort of death He was to die.

And the soldiers made a crown out of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple coat on Him,

and went back into the governor's palace and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

For this took place that this Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of His will be broken."

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire all made and a fish lying on it; also some bread.