And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him.

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

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, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'

You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables,

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.

The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.

"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.

"For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.

After this Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee (that is the lake of Tiberias).

"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.

So when the people saw the sign which he had performed, they said, "This is in the truth the Prophet who is to come into the world."

When evening came on, his disciples went down to the sea.

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

Jesus had not yet come to them, and the sea began to rise, because a strong wind was blowing.

After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified;

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,

when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

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

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?"

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

So a division arose in the crowd concerning him. Some of them wished to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him.

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

(This they said to tempt him, so that they could bring a charge against him.)

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.'

"You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it and was glad."

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes.

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."