John was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

the one who is coming after me, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie."

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, 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 on my own behalf, my testimony is not trustworthy.

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

"I do not accept human praise.

I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

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

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

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

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

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

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

Not even his brothers believed in him.

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

You're judging by human standards, but I'm not judging anyone.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

The slave does not remain in the household forever, but the son does remain forever.

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me.

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Martha told Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.