But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

Jesus said to her, "I who am talking to you am he!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

and my Father who has sent me has thus borne witness to me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe the messenger whom he has sent.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were resting on the ground, and in the same way as much of the fish as they wanted.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

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

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

The crowd answered, "You must be possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

One of them, Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus, said to them,

But even if I do judge, my decision is just, because I am not by myself, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

The man answered, "Who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him already, and it is he who is now talking to you."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

But the man who enters by the door is the shepherd of the flock.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is possessed. Can a madman make blind men see?"

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.