(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')

"I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,

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

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').

Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "When you were under that fig tree, before ever Philip called you, I saw you."

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

and told the pigeon-dealers, "Away with these! My Father's house is not to be turned into a shop!"

Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

and a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink"

The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink ??me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

"Ah, sir," said the woman, "give me this water, so that I need not thirst or come all this road to draw water."

"Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

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

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

Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead."

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

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

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

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.)

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

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.

If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;

I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.

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

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

And when they were satisfied, he said to the disciples, "Gather up the pieces left over, so that nothing may be wasted."

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe.

All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),

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

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father').

Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand;

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet."

Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

Did not Moses give you the Law? ??and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?"

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?

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me;

you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come."

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

Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

he who believes in me ??out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow"

Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."

Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.

and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself ??there is myself and the Father who sent me.

I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me."

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come."

I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from 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.

He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!

I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."

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.

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus replied, "I am not mad: I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

However, I do not aim at my own credit; there is One who cares for my credit, and he is judge.

Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,'

Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

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."

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?"

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

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

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

(I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)

The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

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 lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.