Through him all things came into being, and nothing came into being apart from him.

There appeared a man sent from God, whose name was John;

He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

He was in the world; and through him the world came into being--yet the world did not know him.

For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

He looked at Jesus as he passed and exclaimed: "There is the Lamb of God!"

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of 'purification,' each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum--he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed there only a few days.

In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers at their counters.

So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money-changers, and overturned their tables,

"Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a leading man among the Jews.

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

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the country parts of Judea; and there he stayed with them, and baptized.

John, also, was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there were many streams there; and people were constantly coming and being baptized.

He had to pass through Samaria,

Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about mid-day.

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the King's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Sometime after this there was a Jewish Festival; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

There is in Jerusalem, near the Sheep-gate, a Bath with five colonnades round it. It is called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.'

One man who was there had been afflicted for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice,

Jesus went up the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

"There is a boy here," said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,

When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him.

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me." For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;

And there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying 'He is a good man;' others: 'No! he is leading the people astray.'

The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.

"There was one thing I did," replied Jesus, "at which you are all still wondering.

So there was a sharp division among the people on account of Jesus.

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

"Our father is Abraham," was their answer. "If you are Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "do what Abraham did.

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

Not that I am seeking honor for myself; there is one who is seeking my honor, and he decides.

At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

Jesus heard of their having put him out; and, when he had found the man, he asked: "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

In truth I tell you, whoever does not go into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up at some other place, that man is a thief and a robber;

But the man who goes in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.

I am the Door; he who goes in through me will be safe, and he will go in and out and find pasture.

The Jews again brought stones to throw at him;

"Are there not," replied Jesus, "these words in your Law--'I said "Ye are gods"'?

Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

Then Jesus again crossed the Jordan to the place where John used to baptize at first, and stayed there some time, during which many people came to see him.

And many learned to believe in Jesus there.

And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."

"Rabbi," they replied, "the Jews were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?"

"Are not there twelve hours in the day?" answered Jesus. "If a man walks about in the day-time, he does not stumble, because he can see the light of the sun;

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

A number of the Jews had come there to condole with Martha and Mary on their brother's death.

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: "What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?"

There a supper was given in honor at which Martha waited, while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

If a man is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant shall be also. If a man is ready to serve me, my Father will honor him.

Now I am distressed at heart and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through this hour--yet it was for this very reason that I came to this hour--

Father, honor thine own name." At this there came a voice from Heaven, which said: "I have already honored it, and I will honor it again."

But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

"Will you lay down your life for me?" replied Jesus. "In truth I tell you, the cock will not crow till you have disowned me three times.

In my Father's Home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.

Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law--'They hated me without cause.'

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

But now I am to come to thee; and I am speaking thus, while still in the world, that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.

But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message,

I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples and crossed the brook Kedron to a place where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples went.

The place was well known to Judas, the betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there.

So Judas, who had obtained the soldiers of the Roman garrison, and some police-officers from the Chief Priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

"Jesus of Nazareth," was their answer. "I am he," said Jesus. (Judas, the betrayer, was also standing with them.)

So the soldiers of the garrison, with their Commanding Officer and the Jewish police, arrested Jesus and bound him,

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing there, warming himself; so they said to him: "Are not you also one of his disciples?" Peter denied it. "No, I am not," he said.

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.

They kept coming up to him and saying: "Long live the King of the Jews!" and they gave him blow after blow with their hands.