IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not one thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

A man was sent from God, whose name was John.

He was not the Light, but sent that he should bear testimony concerning the Light.

He was that true Light, which illumines every man by his coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

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

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was.

And out of his fulness have we all received, even grace upon grace. For the law was given by Moses,

For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ.

When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

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

John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

it is he, though coming after me, who was before me, the thong of whole sandal I am not worthy to untie.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptising.

This is he of whom I spake, After me cometh a man who was before me: for before me he existed.

I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

On the morrow John was again standing with two of his disciples;

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!

He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he abode, and continued with him that day: and it was about the tenth hour.

One of the two, who had heard from John mention of Jesus, and had followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

One of the two that heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip: and Jesus saith unto him, Follow me.

Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

Now, Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

Nathaniel saith unto him, From whence canst thou know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

AND on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

and Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding.

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

And when the master of the feast tasted of the water made wine, and knew not whence it was,??ut the servants knew who had drawn the water,??he master of the feast called the bridegroom

and said to him, "Everyone sets out the best wine first, and when people have had plenty to drink, he then sets out the poor quality [wine]. But you have kept the best wine until now." [Note: See Barnes Notes and The Gospel of John by Butler for evidence suggesting that this was not intoxicating wine].

thus was the first miracle of Jesus wrought at Cana in Galilee, by which he displayed his power; and his disciples believed on him.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Then the disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

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

Then the Jews said to him, Forty-six years was this temple being built, and will you raise it in three days?

But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had spoken thus unto them; and they believed the scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Now while he was at Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, when they beheld the miracles which he did.

Jesus himself, however, was not trusting himself unto them, by reason of his understanding them all,

and because he had no need that any man should testify respecting man; for he knew what was in man.

NOW there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

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.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he was with them for some time, giving baptism.

Now John also was baptising at Enon, near to Salem, for there were many streams of water there: and they came, and were baptised.

For as yet John was not cast into prison.

Then there was a controversy of the disciples of John with a Jew concerning purification.

And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, lo! this man baptiseth, and all men come to him.

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

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

He left Judea and returned to Galilee. (Although it was actually His disciples who did the immersing and not Jesus Himself).

And it was necessary that he should pass through Samaria.

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

And Jacob's well was there. Therefore Jesus, weary with his journey, e'en sat himself down on the well: it was about the sixth hour.

It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.

You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

"It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem."

And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

[So], the people went out from the town and came to where Jesus was.

While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

When therefore he was come into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things which he did at the feast: for they also had gone to the feast.

Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Hearing that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and desired him to come down and cure his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus saith to him, 'Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

And as he was now going down his servants met him, and told, saying, Your child lives.

Then inquired he of them the hour at which he began to amend? and they told him, It was yesterday, at the seventh hour, when the fever left him.

Then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he believed, and all his house.

This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.

AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

now there was at Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a bath, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, which had five portico's.

In these, was lying a throng of them who were sick, - blind, lame, withered.

for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole, with whatsoever disease he was holden.

And there was a certain man there who had been sick thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."

And the man immediately became well, and took up his bed and walked. That day was the sabbath.

The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry the bed.

But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

And the sick man knew not who it was; for Jesus had gone away, a multitude being in that place.

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well;

And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

Then, for this reason, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

and they will come out [i.e., in the general resurrection on the last day]. Those who had done what was good will be raised [from the dead] to [never ending] life; and those who had done what was evil will be raised [from the dead] to judgment [i.e., to be condemned].

"You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to the truth.

He was a burning and shining light, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;

And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.