Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Now a dispute came about between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working."

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things."

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

(Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas.

Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.)

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' now I tell you the same.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him."

I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

"I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

His disciples said, "Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

Jesus replied, "Do you now believe?

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

They replied, "Jesus the Nazarene." He told them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)