But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

John gave testimony concerning Him and cried aloud, saying, "This is He of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me,' for He was before me."

No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

They were Pharisees who had been sent.

"I baptize in water only," John answered, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not know--

He who is to come after me, and whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten."

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

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

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

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now turned into wine, than--not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew--he called to the bridegroom

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

He who comes from above is above all. He whose origin is from the earth is not only himself from the earth, his teaching also is from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

Any man who has received His testimony has solemnly declared that God is true.

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

"How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."

"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

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

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

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

"He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

There is Another who gives testimony concerning me, and I know that the testimony is true which He offers concerning me.

And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, namely Moses, on whom your hope rests.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were resting on the ground; and also the fish in like manner--as much as they desired.

Thereupon the people, having seen the miracle He had performed, said, "This is indeed the Prophet who was to come into the world."

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

"I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.

Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

"Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.

He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.

Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

The man whose teaching originates with himself aims at his own glory. He who aims at the glory of Him who sent him teaches the truth, and there is no deception in him.

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"

Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

I am one giving testimony about myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony about me."

"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.

"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone: for I do always what is pleasing to Him."

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

I, however, am not aiming at glory for myself: there is One who aims at glory for me--and who judges.

Are you really greater than our forefather Abraham? For he died. And the prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

"Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me--namely my Father, who you say is your God.

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