And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Then John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Nathanael replied, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine left."

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

His mother told the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

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

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

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

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to 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 will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

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

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

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

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?"

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)