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

He was face to face with God in the Beginning.

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

A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John.

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

The true Light, which enlightens every man, was then coming into the world.

He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.

John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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

This happened in Bethany, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

Next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples.

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

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

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the countryside of Judea, and there he was staying with them and baptizing.

John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

(though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),

Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.

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

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.

And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.

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

And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.

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

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill.

Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.

Accordingly when he looked up, and perceived a great crowd was coming unto him,

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

Jesus had not yet come to them, and the sea began to rise, because a strong wind was blowing.

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum.

"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed.

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Now he said this concerning the Spirit whom those who believed in him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone??nd the woman in the middle of the court.

He said these words in the Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it and was glad."

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

"Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

Then in reply his parents said: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

"What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

"Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

It was winter, and Jesus used to walk in the Temple, in Solomon's Portico.

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

However, when he heard that he was ill,

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him."

Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away;

So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained sitting in the house.

"Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him.

Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died."

Then when Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews likewise who accompanied her, sobbing, he shuddered with indignation in his spirit, and was deeply agitated.

Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it.

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.