There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

The true light, who gives light to everyone,
was coming into the world.

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked.

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

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

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

There is Another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives about Me is valid.

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You?”

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

I am the One who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

I do not seek My glory; the One who seeks it also judges.

Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? Even the prophets died. Who do You pretend to be?”

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

“Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.