John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

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

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.

This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.

I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!

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

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.

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

Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).

The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.

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

Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!

In answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these.

And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.

When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.

His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.

Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

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.

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.

The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.

In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:

You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

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

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly 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, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

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

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get 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, Get up, take your bed and go.

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

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

For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that is, the sea of Tiberias.

Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

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

Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

But he said to them, It is I, have no fear.

The day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

And when they came across him on the other side of the sea they said, Rabbi, when did you come here?

Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another.