"What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No."

"I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said."

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

One of the two, who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him: "We have found the Messiah!" (a word which means 'Christ,' or 'Consecrated'.)

Then he brought him to Jesus. Fixing his eyes on him, Jesus said: "You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Kephas" (which means 'Peter,' or 'Rock').

The following day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip, and said to him: "Follow me."

He found Nathanael and said to him: "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the Prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!"

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him: "They have no wine left."

His mother said to the servants: "Do whatever he tells you."

Jesus said to the servants: "Fill the water-jars with water;"

He called the bridegroom and said to him: "Every one puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterwards, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine till now!"

And said to the pigeon-dealers: "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's House into a market-house."

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

Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

And the disciples came to John and said: "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, and to whom you have yourself borne testimony--he, also, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her- - "Give me some to drink,"

"You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep," she said; "where did you get that 'living water?'

"Give me this water, Sir," said the woman, "so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

"I am he," Jesus said to her, "I who am speaking to you."

So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people:

"Can any one have brought him anything to eat?" the disciples said to one another.

But far more came to believe in him on account of what he said himself,

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;

So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. "It was yesterday, about one o'clock," they said, "that the fever left him."

By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him 'Your son is living'; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

"Stand up," said Jesus, "take up your mat, and walk about."

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

"The man who cured me," he answered, "said to me 'Take up your mat and walk about.'"

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him: "You are cured now; do not sin again, for fear that something worse may befall you."

Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip: "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he meant to do.

"There is a boy here," said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

But Jesus said to them: "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving.

And, when they found him on the other side of the Sea, they said: "When did you get here, Rabbi?"

"I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again.

But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me.

"Do not murmur among yourselves," said Jesus in reply.

It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me.

All this Jesus said in a Synagogue, when he was teaching in Capernaum.

On hearing it, many of his disciples said: "This is harsh doctrine! Who can bear to listen to it?"

But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

So Jesus said to the Twelve: "Do you also wish to leave me?"

His brothers said to him: "Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.

So, in reply, Jesus said: "My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

Some of the people, when they heard these words, said:

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

Is not it said in Scripture that it is of the race of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?"

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."

"Go," he said, "and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam" (a word which means 'Messenger'). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

"Yes," some said, "it is"; while others said: "No, but he is like him." The man himself said: "I am he."

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

"The man cannot be from God," said some of the Pharisees, "for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible," retorted others, "for a bad man to give signs like this?"

This was why his parents said 'He is old enough; ask him.'

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

"Not only have you seen him," said Jesus; "but it is he who is now speaking to you."

"Then, Sir, I do believe," said the man, bowing to the ground before him;

Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said: "Then are we blind too?"

Many of them said: "He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?"

Others said: "This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?"

When the Jews gathered round him, and said: "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so frankly."

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"

"Are there not," replied Jesus, "these words in your Law--'I said "Ye are gods"'?

If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be 'gods'--and Scripture cannot be set aside--

Do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to the world 'You are blaspheming,' because I said 'I am God's Son'?

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."

Then, after that, he said to his disciples: "Let us go to Judea again."

And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

"If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will get well," said the disciples.

Then he said to them plainly: "Lazarus is dead;

At this, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to his fellow-disciples: "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

"Master," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

"Your brother shall rise to life," said Jesus.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;

But some of them said: "Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?"

"Move the stone away," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time the smell must be offensive, for this is the fourth day since his death."

So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard my prayer;

The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding- sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. "Set him free," said Jesus, "and let him go."