So they asked him again, "What are you then? Elijah?" And he answered, "Of course, I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

The two disciples heard him say this, and so they followed Jesus.

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

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

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

So when He reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, for they had seen everything that He had done at the feast in Jerusalem, for they too had attended the feast.

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

"You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,

And a vast crowd continued to follow Him, for they pressed on to view the wonder-works which He performed for the sick people.

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were sitting on the ground; so too with the fish as much as they wanted.

When they had plenty, He said to His disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, that nothing be wasted."

So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.

When the people, therefore, saw the wonder-works that He performed, they began to say, "This is surely the prophet who was to come into the world."

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into boats themselves and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"

Then they asked Him, "What must we do to perform the works that God demands?"

So they asked Him, "What wonder-work then are you going to perform for us to see and so believe in you? What work are you going to do?

Then they said to Him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna, and yet they died.

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

Just look! He is talking in public, and yet they do not say a word to Him! It cannot be that the authorities have really learned that He is the Christ, can it?

Then they kept on trying to arrest Him, and yet no one laid a hand on Him, for the time had not yet come.

So some of the people, when they heard this, said, "This is surely the prophet."

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

Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

And the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in adultery. And standing her in the middle,

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

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.

He straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

Then they began to say to Him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

Then they asked Him, "Who are you anyway?" Jesus answered them, "Why do I even talk to you at all?

They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.

They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants and we never have been anybody's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

They answered Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, you must be practicing what Abraham did.

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?"

Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know."

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."

Again they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He make your eyes to see again?"

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue.

Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?"

So when he gets his sheep all out, he goes on before them, and the sheep come on behind him, because they know his voice.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what He meant by it.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.

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

and I give to them eternal life, and they shall never get lost, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

and asked, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Lord, come and see."

So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me;

yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.

This is why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this wonder-work.

and they went to Philip who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and kept making this request of him, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Although He had performed so many wonder-works right before their eyes, they did not believe in Him,

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said:

"He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

They will do this, because they have never come to know God nor me.

about sin, because they do not believe in me;