In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He existed in the beginning with God.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God."

As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

Nathaniel replied to him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

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

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

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

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

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

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.

"I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

I'm the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

So the disciples told him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

therefore he got up from the table, removed his outer robe, and took a towel and fastened it around his waist.

After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

The young woman at the gate asked Peter, "You aren't one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" "I am not," he replied.

Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "I saw you in the garden with Jesus, didn't I?"

The Jewish leaders answered Pilate, "We have a law, and according to that Law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."