He is the One who was face to face with God in the beginning.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

Now this is the testimony which John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?"

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

John answered them, "I am baptizing only in water. There is standing among you One with whom you are not acquainted.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

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

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down out of heaven.

so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

It is the bridegroom who has the bride, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands outside and listens to him, is very happy to hear the bridegroom's voice. So this happiness of mine is running over.

He who comes from above is far above all others. He who springs from earth belongs to the earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is far above all others.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

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

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

There is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony which He gives to me is of force.

yes, the Father who has sent me has testified to me Himself. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form;

and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

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

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were sitting on the ground; so too with the fish as much as they wanted.

When the people, therefore, saw the wonder-works that He performed, they began to say, "This is surely 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 was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

For it is my Father's will 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 ever 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; of course, He has seen the Father.

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

The crowd answered, "You are certainly under the power of a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

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

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

I do testify to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

Then they asked Him, "Who are you anyway?" Jesus answered them, "Why do I even talk to you at all?

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

Yes, He who sent me is ever with me; I am not alone, because I always practice what pleases Him."

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

However, I am not seeking honor for myself; there is One who is seeking it for me, and He is judge.

You are not greater than our forefather Abraham, are you? He is dead and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, such glory amounts to nothing. It is the Father who glorifies me; and you claim that He is your God.

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

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "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 did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."

We know that God does not listen to sinful men, but He does listen to anyone who worships God and lives to do His will.

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

He answered, "Who is He, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?"

But the one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.