The Word became flesh
and took up residence among us.
We observed His glory,
the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

“Rabbi,” Nathanael replied, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

Jesus answered, “You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

“Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

Fear no more, Daughter Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.

This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.

Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.

Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.” When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:

About sin, because they do not believe in Me;

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:

Father,
the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You,

While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”

Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”

Jesus said, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Those who believe without seeing are blessed.”

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.

He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.”

“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said.