They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and see." So they went and saw where he stayed, and stayed with him the rest of that day ??it was then about four in the afternoon.

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

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

Then he said, "Now draw some out, and take it to the manager of the feast." They did so;

After this he travelled down to Capharnahum, with his mother and brothers and his disciples; they stayed there for a few days.

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

They set out from the town on their way to him.

So when the Samaritans arrived, they pressed him to stay with them; he did stay there two days,

As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.

And when they were satisfied, he said to the disciples, "Gather up the pieces left over, so that nothing may be wasted."

They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five loaves left over from the meal.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

After rowing about three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and nearing the boat. They were terrified,

so they agreed to take him on board, and the boat instantly reached the land they were making for.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus.

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

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?"

"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?

"Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always."

They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died;

Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill?

Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ?

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her";

And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all?

They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father;

"We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?"

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and made his way out of the temple.

So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?"

He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight."

"Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know."

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

"What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?"

Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them;

The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;

and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

Once more they tried to arrest him, but he escaped their hands

Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb.

"Where have you laid him?" he asked. They answered, "Come and see, sir."

Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.

(I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)"

whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs.

They looked out for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they said to one another, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come up to the festival?"

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him."

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said,

Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;

they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God.

some of them thought that as Judas kept the money-box, Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.)

Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.