And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.

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

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

and looking at Jesus [as he] was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!"

And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

And [when the] wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!"

And Jesus said to her, "What {does your concern have to do with me}, woman? My hour has not yet come."

His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do [it]!"

And he said to them, "Now draw [some] out and take [it] to the head steward. So they took [it].

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

And he made a whip of cords [and] drove [them] all out of the temple [courts], both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

and because he did not {need} anyone {to testify} about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'

The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!

And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."

What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.

And it was necessary [for] him to go through Samaria.

And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me [water] to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."

You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

They went out from the town and were coming to him.

In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him [anything] to eat, [did they]?"

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, [because they] had seen all [the things] he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And [there] was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

And a certain man was there who had [been] thirty-eight years in his sickness.

And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn [while] a crowd was in the place.

After these [things] Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these [things] also the Son does likewise.

And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

"Do not be astonished [at] this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice

and they will come out--those who have done good [things] to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil [things] to a resurrection of judgment.

And the Father who sent me, that one has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?"

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many [people]?"

Then Jesus took the bread, and [after he] had given thanks, he distributed [it] to those who were reclining--likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

But he said to them, "[It] is I! Do not be afraid!"

Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?"

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see [it] and believe you? What will you do?

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'

Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out,

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die.

So the Jews began to quarrel {among themselves}, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live {forever}."

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

Then [what] if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

For no one does anything in secret and [yet] he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}. If you are doing these [things], reveal yourself to the world!"

So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.