In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

It was he that was with God in the beginning.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

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

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

And the man was immediately cured, and he picked up his mat and walked.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

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

Now the Jewish festival of the Passover was coming.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

a strong wind was blowing and the sea was growing rough.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

But the Jewish camping festival was coming.

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

But when the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

and Jesus was walking up and down inside the Temple, in Solomon's Colonnade.

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on for two days in the place where he was,

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went out to meet him, but Mary remained at home.

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

for Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

Again repressing a groan, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against the mouth of it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

Now the Jewish Passover Festival was approaching and many people went up to Jerusalem from the country, to purify themselves before the Passover.

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.

And Mary took a pound of choice perfume, very costly, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, said,

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars, and the money given to the poor?"

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign.

and they went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made this request of him: "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial.

The crowd of bystanders heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, "It was an angel speaking to him!"

Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.