He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

But He meant the sanctuary of His body.

But He would not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

(For John had not yet been put in prison.)

You can bear testimony to me yourselves that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent as His announcer.'

It is the bridegroom who has the bride, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands outside and listens to him, is very happy to hear the bridegroom's voice. So this happiness of mine is running over.

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

The Father loves His Son and has put everything in His hands.

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

However, I do not accept mere human testimony, but I am saying this that you may be saved.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

but you refuse to come to me to get possession of life.

but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

But He said to them, "It is I; stop being afraid!"

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

But I have told you that, although you have seen me, yet you do not believe in me.

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

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately.

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath.

But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, however, no one will know where He is from."

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"

You will then look for me, but you will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going."

Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He?

and some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one ventured to lay a hand upon Him.

But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to 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 come from or where I am going.

You are judging in accordance with external standards, but I judge nobody.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does.

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

And yet you have not learned to know Him; but I know Him, and if I say I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you. On the other hand, I do know Him and I do follow His teaching.

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to show what God could do in his case.

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see."

But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see."

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

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

We know that God does not listen to sinful men, but He does listen to anyone who worships God and lives to do His will.

Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

But the one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what He meant by it.