John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

He said, "I am a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Make the road straight for the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."

This took place at Bethany on the farther side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

and as he saw Jesus passing by he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God!"

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

Then Nathaniel said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you."

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

and said to him, "Everybody, as a rule, serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

You can bear testimony to me yourselves that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent as His announcer.'

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband,'

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Another of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

When they had plenty, He said to His disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, that nothing be wasted."

But He said to them, "It is I; stop being afraid!"

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

Then they said to Him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never get hungry, and whoever believes in me will never get thirsty.

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.

He said this as He taught in the synagogue at Capernaum.

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You too do not want to go back, do you?"

So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing;

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?

So some of the people, when they heard this, said, "This is surely the prophet."

Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He?

One of them, Nicodemus, who had formerly gone to Jesus, said to them,

Early the next morning, He had come into the temple again, and all the people were gathering around Him. Having sat down, He began to teach them.

they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

He straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

And she said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go. Stop sinning from this point on."

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

The Pharisees then said to Him, "You are testifying to yourself; your testimony is not true."

He said these things in the treasury as He was teaching in the temple, and yet no one ventured to arrest Him, because the time had not yet come for Him.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

Then the Jews began to say, "He is not going to kill Himself, is He? Is that why He said, 'Where I am going you can never come'?"

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants and we never have been anybody's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

They answered Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, you must be practicing what Abraham did.

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."