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

He was with God in the beginning.

All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.

There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

He was not the light,
but he came to testify about the light.

The true light, who gives light to everyone,
was coming into the world.

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and

The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

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

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was left, with the woman in the center.

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day; he saw it and rejoiced.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon’s Colonnade.

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

“Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.

Then Jesus, angry in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

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

So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray Him), said,

“Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?”

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.