There appeared a man sent from God, whose name was John;

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:

"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

These men had been sent from the Pharisees;

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God's own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.

"My food," replied Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

So that all men may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son fails to honor the Father who sent him.

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

You have yourselves sent to John, and he as testified to the Truth.

But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John's; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out-- the work that I am doing--is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his Messenger.

The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;

And you have not taken his Message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his Messenger.

"The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger."

For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

As the Living Father sent me as his Messenger, and as I live because the Father lives, so he who takes me for his food shall live because I live.

So, in reply, Jesus said: "My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.

The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.

When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his Messenger."

The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the Chief Priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

Yet, even if I were to judge, my judgment would be trustworthy; because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

I, who bear testimony to myself, am one, and the Father who sent me also bears testimony to me."

"I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him."

Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to the world 'You are blaspheming,' because I said 'I am God's Son'?

The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus--'Master, your friend is ill';

I know that thou always headrest me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that thou has sent me as thy Messenger."

So Mary took a pound of choice spikenard perfume of great value, and anointed the feet of Jesus with it, and then wiped them with her hair. The whole house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

In truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me."

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.

For I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world.

That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

Again Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his Messenger, so I am sending you."