To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

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 this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

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?

Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.

John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

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

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.

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.

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

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.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

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 to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews.

And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

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 who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

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

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, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.

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

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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.

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

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.

He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

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.

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.

So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into 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.

There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

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.

And a great number of people went after him because they saw the signs which he did on those who were ill.

Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

The day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

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.

And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

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.

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

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.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

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.

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

He was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be false to Jesus--one of the twelve.

Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?

Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;

But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

Then Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you?

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.

I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?