From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

This Word was from the first in relation with God.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.

And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.

And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.

Now Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from.

After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,

So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

And after the two days he went on from there into Galilee.

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

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Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

I do not take honour from men;

How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

Some other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had taken the bread after the Lord had given praise.

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.

Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;

And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.