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

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

And they asked him, "Then who [are] you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!"

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

John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands [one] whom you do not know--

the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy {to untie} the strap of his sandal!"

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

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

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! {A true Israelite} in whom is no deceit!"

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

And he found in the temple [courts] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

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

And 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 in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices {greatly} because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all.

The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true.

For [the one] whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life--but the wrath of God remains on him.

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

You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

for you have had five husbands, and [the one] whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!"

God [is] spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done."

In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.

And a certain man was there who had [been] thirty-eight years in his sickness.

The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

But he answered them, "The one who made me well--that one said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk!'"

So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up [your mat] and walk?'"

But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn [while] a crowd was in the place.

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

in order that all [people] will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

"Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.

and they will come out--those who have done good [things] to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil [things] to a resurrection of judgment.

I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my [own] will, but the will of the one who sent me.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

And the Father who sent me, that one has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.

And you do not have his word residing in yourselves, because the one whom that one sent, in this one you do not believe.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope!

And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

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

Then Jesus took the bread, and [after he] had given thanks, he distributed [it] to those who were reclining--likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they gathered [them], and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

Now [when] the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say, "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in [the one] whom that one sent."

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

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out,

because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose [any] of them, but raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

No one is able to 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 hears from the Father and learns comes to me.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God--this one has seen the Father.)

Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

The one 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 resides in me and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, [so] also the one who eats me--that one will live because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live {forever}."

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him--this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

The crowd replied, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

Then Jesus said, "Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.

the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"

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

But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!"

Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously--who was one of them--said to them,

Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me."

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

I have many [things] to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and [the things] which I heard from him, these [things] I say to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."