John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’”

They asked him, “What then? 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 may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

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

They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’

I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

And Jesus turned and saw them following, and *said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated means 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, for it was about the tenth hour.

He *found first his own brother Simon and *said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

The next day He purposed to go into Galilee, and He *found Philip. And Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me.”

Philip *found Nathanael and *said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip *said to him, “Come and see.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

Nathanael *said to Him, “How 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 you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, “They have no wine.”

And Jesus *said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? 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 waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

And He *said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it to him.

and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?”

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is 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 enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”

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

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

She *said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;

for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

The woman *said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and *said to the men,

But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”

The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

Jesus *said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and his whole household.

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

Jesus *said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.”

But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”

Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, *said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?”

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

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

When they were filled, He *said to His disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost.”

Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

But He *said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”

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

Jesus answered 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 filled.

Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”

So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”

Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

So 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 have no life in yourselves.

These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

Therefore His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.

So Jesus *said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.

Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”