The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John bore witness of him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'"

And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered, "No."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

It is he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."

And John bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

And he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying; and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

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

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come."

He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it.

When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.

And he said to him, "Every man sets out the good wine first; and when the guests have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers at their business.

And he made a whip of cords, and drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

Then the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show to us, since you do this?"

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did.

and he had no need for anyone to bear witness of man, for he knew what was in man.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and testify to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been done in God."

Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were baptized.

For John had not yet been put in prison.

John answered, "A man can receive only what is given to him from heaven.

He testifies to what he has seen and heard; yet no one receives his testimony.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

They went out of the city and came to him.

Meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are already white for harvest.

They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man is indeed the Savior of the world."

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was sick.

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

So he inquired of them the hour when his son got better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household.

One man who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

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

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does.

Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice

Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these people may eat?"

But this he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid."

Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

However, boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?"

So they said to him, "What sign will you perform then, that we may see it and believe you? What work will you do?

Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live for ever."

Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who was to betray him, though one of the twelve.

Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."

The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"

Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Here he is, speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that he is the Christ?

Then Jesus cried out, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come on my own, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

Then they sought to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

What does he mean when he said, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.