John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was.

He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, What then? art thou Elias? and he said, I am not. Art thou that prophet? and he answered, No.

Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us: What description givest thou of thyself?

He said, I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way for the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.

And they questioned him, and said to him, Why then dost thou baptise, if thou be not the Messiah, nor Elias, nor that prophet?

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

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

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.'

And I did not know him: but he that sent me baptising with water, he said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending as a dove, and resting upon him, that is he who baptiseth with the Holy Ghost.

and as he saw Jesus passing by he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God!"

Hearing what he said, the two disciples went after Jesus.

Then Jesus turned about, and seeing them following, saith to them, What are ye seeking? They said unto him, Rabbi (which signifies, when translated, Master), where is thy abode?

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said, went after Jesus.

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

And he brought him to Jesus. Then Jesus looking on him, said, Thou art Simon the son of Jonas: thou shalt be called Cephas, which, interpreted [in Greek], is Petros, a Rock.

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Now Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from.

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

And Nathaniel said to him, Can any thing good come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, Come and see.

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Nathaniel saith unto him, From whence canst thou know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

Nathaniel answered and said to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the king of Israel.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, dost thou believe? thou shalt see greater things than these.

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you."

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

And he said unto them, Draw out now, and carry to the president of the table. So they carried it.

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.

and said to him, "Everybody, as a rule, serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

upon which he made a whip of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with their sheep, and oxen; and threw about the changers money, and over-set the tables; and said to the dove-sellers,

and said to those who sold doves, Take these hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

The Jews then addressed him, and said to him, What miracle shewest thou, seeing thou actest thus?

Jesus answered and said to them, Pull down this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again.

Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

this man came to Jesus in the night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles which thou dost, unless God be with him.

Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?

Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.

And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, lo! this man baptiseth, and all men come to him.

John answered and said, A man cannot assume any thing, except it be given him from heaven.

Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Messiah, but that I am sent before him.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

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

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who he is that speaketh to thee, thou wouldest have requested him, and he would have given thee life-giving water.

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one who drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

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

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

And upon this his disciples came, and wondered that he talked with the woman; but no one said to him, What do you seek? or why do you talk with her?

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

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

Then the disciples said one to another, Has any one brought him food to eat?

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see miracles and prodigies you will not believe.

The nobleman said to him, Lord, come down before my child dies.

Jesus said to him, Go; your son lives. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went.

And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living.

Then he inquired of them the hour in which he became better. Then they said to him, The fever left him yesterday, at the seventh hour.

Then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he believed, and all his house.

Jesus seeing him lying, and knowing that he had now been sick a long time, said to him, Do you wish to become well?

The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

Jesus said to him, Arise, take up your bed and walk.

The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry the bed.

He answered them, He that made me well, he said to me, Take up your bed and walk.

They asked him, Who is the man that said to you, Take up your bed and walk?

Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you have become well; sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.

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

But Jesus said to them, "My Father is continuing to work and I am working."

Then, for this reason, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Then Jesus answered and said to them, I tell you most truly, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for whatever he does, these things also does the Son in like manner.

Then Jesus lining up his eyes, and seeing many people come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?

But this he said to try him; for he knew what he was about to do.

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

Jesus said, Make the men sit down. And there was much grass in the place. The men, therefore, sat down in number about five thousand.