So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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

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

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

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

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

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.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

So they collected and filled twelve baskets full of pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

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!"

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

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

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

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?"

When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

they told him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.

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.

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?"

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

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

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

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

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

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.

My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.

I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

He asked, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

So they removed the stone.

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

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.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.