In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John:

he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him.

The real Light, which enlightens every man, was coming then into the world:

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.'

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

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

There he found, seated inside the temple, dealers in cattle, sheep and pigeons, also money-changers.

Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey.

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

(though I accept no testimony from man ??I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

I accept no credit from men,

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died;

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.

Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed?

And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath.

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill?

No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from."

Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"

What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?"

The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."

And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

"We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?"

but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;

With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes,

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man."

He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight."

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.")

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

"Who is that, sir?" said the man, "tell me, that I may believe in him."

The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?"

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany ??the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"

Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days."

Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it ??50 you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

"Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?"

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.

But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."

So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God.

And I know his orders mean eternal life. Therefore when I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

Jesus answered, "The man I am going to give this piece of bread to, when I dip it in the dish." Then he took the piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot;

some of them thought that as Judas kept the money-box, Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.)

When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,]

Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:

He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?"

I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

(all mine is thine and thine is mine), and I am glorified in them.

he answered, "I told you that I am he; if it is me you are looking for, let these men get away"

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

so Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"