All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel."

This I have seen, and I am become a witness to the fact that he is the Son of God."

After gazing intently on Jesus as he walked about, he said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

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

"He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.

The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.

And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.

"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.

"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)

"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

"you will not come to me that you may have life.

"that you have not the love of God in yourselves.

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

After this Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee (that is the lake of Tiberias).

"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.

When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

"Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.

"I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life.

"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

"and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God."

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?