What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

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.

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.

These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.

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.

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

Hearing what he said, the two disciples went after Jesus.

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said, went after Jesus.

Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).

Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

On the third day two people were going to be married at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there:

His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

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,

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;

And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he did.

He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

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.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

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 Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

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:

But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.

For at this time John had not been put into prison.

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.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism

(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.

And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

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.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

So they went out of the town and came to him.

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 a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

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.

It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

Now this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

One man was there who had been ill for 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?

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.

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

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

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?

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

But he said to them, It is I, have no fear.

Then they readily took him into the boat: and straight away the boat was at the land to which they were going.

So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

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.

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

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?

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

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

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.

Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum.

When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?