"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Even before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of 'purification,' each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers at their counters.

And because he did not need that others should tell him what men were; for he could of himself read what was in men.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

John, also, was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there were many streams there; and people were constantly coming and being baptized.

At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?'

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

In these colonnades a large number of afflicted people were lying--blind, lame, and crippled.

He was the 'Lamp that was burning' and shining, and you were ready to rejoice, for a time, in his light.

A great crowd of people, however, followed him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were afflicted.

And then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

The disciples did so, and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which were left after all had eaten.

But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him King, retired again up the hill, quite alone.

When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.

"In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "it is not on account of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you had the bread to eat and were satisfied.

But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me." For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;

After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death.

The Jews were looking for him at the Festival and asking 'Where is he?';

And there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying 'He is a good man;' others: 'No! he is leading the people astray.'

The Jews were astonished. "How has this man got his learning," they asked, "when he has never studied?"

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

When the officers returned to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, they were asked: "Why have you not brought him?"

Yet, even if I were to judge, my judgment would be trustworthy; because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

And yet you have not learned to know him; but I know him; and, if I were to say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I lay his Message to heart.

His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.

Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said: "Then are we blind too?"

All who came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.

If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be 'gods'--and Scripture cannot be set aside--

"Rabbi," they replied, "the Jews were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?"

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

Among those who were going up to worship at the Festival were some Greeks,

The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words--

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said: "Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying 'In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed'?

I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart.

So he again asked for whom they were looking, and they answered: "Jesus of Nazareth."

The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

These words were read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and they were written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

Meanwhile near the cross of Jesus were standing his mother and his mother's sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.

In the evening of the same day--the first day of the week-- after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: "Peace be with you";

After which he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Master.

A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you."

There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book;

It was in this way:--Simon Peter, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, Zebediah's sons, and two other disciples of Jesus, were together, when Simon Peter said:

But the rest of the disciples came in the boat (for they were only about a hundred yards from shore), dragging the net full of fish.

So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not been torn.

"In truth I tell you," he continued, "when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while some one else puts on your girdle, and takes you where you do not wish."

There are many other things which Jesus did; but, if every one of them were to be recorded in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not hold the books that would be written.