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

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for Your house will consume Me.

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

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.

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

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

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

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

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

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

“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.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

“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—

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

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

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.”

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

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

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

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

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.”

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death—ever!”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

“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.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?”

If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Father, glorify Your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

“You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in His spirit and testified, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me!”

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.