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

Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

"I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize,

This happened in Bethany, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

"Rabbi," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel."

Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

There he found in the temple those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there.

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."

so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;

"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill.

he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks he distributed them among those who were seated; in like manner also of the fish, as much as they wished,

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.

After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified;

Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.

So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,

when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.

"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.

"Yet 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 who should betray him.

"and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God."

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

"For no one ever does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known publicly. If you are performing these signs, show yourself openly to the world."

"My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand.

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

then he went too??ot openly, but as it were a secret.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed.

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

"For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man.

"And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

"Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also."

Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come."

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"