He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all,

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

For John had not yet been put in prison.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."

for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

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

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe the messenger whom he has sent.

I do not accept any honor from men,

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Jesus answered, "Do not complain to one another.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer."

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

You must not judge so externally; you must judge justly!"

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be."

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

But even if I do judge, my decision is just, because I am not by myself, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

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

But because I tell the truth you will not believe me.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed, but I have respect for my Father, and you have no respect for me.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

The Jews said to him, "You are not fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They said to him, "Where is he?" He answered, "I do not know."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."