That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” And they did.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for Your house will consume Me.

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

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

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Many more believed because of what He said.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

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

But He said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid!”

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?”

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.