John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband."

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

The people left the town and started on their way to him.

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

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

The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You don't want to leave, too, do you?"

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground.

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon. On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it, and he is the Judge.

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

"I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep.

If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me.

But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

"Lord, why can't I follow you now?" Peter asked him. "I would lay down my life for you!"

Jesus answered him, "Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times."

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

of sin, because they don't believe in me;

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"