(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

If I have told you people about earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

So they left the town and began coming to him.

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

So Jesus went on up the mountainside and sat down there with his disciples.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

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

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

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

and they said, "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'?"

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

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You don't want to go away too, do you?"

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."

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

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

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

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

This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

No one takes it away from me, but 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 commandment I received from my Father."

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

Thomas said, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"

So Pilate said, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Don't you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?"

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called "The Stone Pavement" (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

So Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They replied, "No."

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.