The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he *said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

John answered them saying, “I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”

I did not recognize Him, but so that He might be manifested to Israel, I came baptizing in water.”

I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

And Jesus *said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”

When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter *called the bridegroom,

But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men,

and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

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

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”

But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”

So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

“If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.

But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.

I do not receive glory from men;

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

I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”

and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

But He *said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”

The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”

But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”

For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

So Jesus *said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.

So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?

Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they?

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?”

You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you?