So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

For from His bounty we have all received spiritual blessing after spiritual blessing.

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

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?"

He said, "I am a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Make the road straight for the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."

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.

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

After this Jesus went home to Capernaum, with His mother and brothers and disciples, and stayed there for a few days.

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

(For John had not yet been put in prison.)

He who comes from above is far above all others. He who springs from earth belongs to the earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is far above all others.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

For His disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

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.

Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

For in this matter the adage is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

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."

for He Himself declared that a prophet had no honor in his own country.

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.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,

and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

"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,

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about 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.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

He was saying this to test him for He knew Himself what He was going to do.

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.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

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?

for the bread that God gives is what comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

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.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, for he was going to betray Him, although he was one of the Twelve.

for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world."

For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to it yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"

And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

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

You will then look for me, but you will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going."

What does He mean by saying, 'You will look for me and will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going'?"

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

He said these things in the treasury as He was teaching in the temple, and yet no one ventured to arrest Him, because the time had not yet come for Him.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

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'?"

So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

However, I am not seeking honor for myself; there is One who is seeking it for me, and He is judge.

So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?"

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to show what God could do in his case.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

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.

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.

This is because he is a hired man and does not care a straw for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my own life for my sheep.