(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

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

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

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.”

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

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!”

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?”

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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

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

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

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.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

“For you’ve 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 know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

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?”

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?”

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.”

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

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

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

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.”

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

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

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always!”

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

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.

He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

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

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

Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

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.

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

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.”

When Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

“I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped Him.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your scripture, I said, you are gods?

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Then after that, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go so that we may die with Him.”

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. It’s been four days.”

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”