John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

And they asked him, "Then who [are] you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

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

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

and looking at Jesus [as he] was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me!"

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!"

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! {A true Israelite} in whom is no deceit!"

Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, [when you] were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater [things] than these!"

And he said to him, "Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

And [when the] wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!"

And Jesus said to her, "What {does your concern have to do with me}, woman? My hour has not yet come."

His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do [it]!"

Jesus said to them, "Fill the water jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.

And he said to them, "Now draw [some] out and take [it] to the head steward. So they took [it].

and said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

And to the ones selling the doves he said, "Take these [things] away from here! Do not make my Father's house {a marketplace}!"

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, 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 saying that Jesus had spoken.

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"

Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'

Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these [things] be?"

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'

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

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me [water] to drink, [since I] am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me [water] to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?

Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!"

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

The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,'

for you have had five husbands, and [the one] whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!"

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

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

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all [things] to us."

Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am [he].

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you [people] see signs and wonders, you will never believe!"

The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!"

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

Jesus, [when he] saw this one lying [there] and knew that he had [been sick] a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!"

But he answered them, "The one who made me well--that one said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk!'"

So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up [your mat] and walk?'"

After these [things] Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these [things] also the Son does likewise.

{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?"

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

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

Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now [there] was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand [in] number.

And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."

But he said to them, "[It] is I! Do not be afraid!"

And [when they] found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?"

Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in [the one] whom that one sent."

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see [it] and believe you? What will you do?

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven!

So they said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread!"

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

But I said to you that you have seen me and do not believe.

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble {among yourselves}!

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to 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.

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

But Jesus, [because he] knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, [do you]?"

So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

And [when he] had said these [things], he remained in Galilee.

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.

Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

Then Jesus said, "Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.

So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?

What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"