This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

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

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.