He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

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?

John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.

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.

This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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 there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:

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

And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

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.

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.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

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.

He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

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.

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

Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

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?

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

So they went out of the town and came to him.

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

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

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.

In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

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?

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.

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.

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

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.

For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

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

And a great number of people went after him because they saw the signs which he did on those who were ill.

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?

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.

So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

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.

Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.

When evening came the disciples went down to the sea;

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

The sea was getting rough because of a strong wind which was blowing.

After they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat; and they had great 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.

So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples, they got into those boats and went over to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

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.

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

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

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.

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.