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

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?"

And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

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

These [things] took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, [when you] were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!"

And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

And Jesus said to her, "What {does your concern have to do with me}, woman? My hour has not yet come."

Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

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 said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

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

His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

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."

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?

Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

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.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.

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 woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this 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?"

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!"

He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

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

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

They went out from the town and were coming to him.

In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And [there] was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

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

Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!"

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?'"

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?

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.

{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?"

"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.

And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."

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

Then Jesus, [because he] knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make [him] king, withdrew again up the mountain [by] himself alone.

Then [when they] had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.

Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread [after] the Lord had given thanks.

Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'

and they were saying, "Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

But Jesus, [because he] knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

Then [what] if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

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.)

For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer.

And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

For no one does anything in secret and [yet] he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}. If you are doing these [things], reveal yourself to the world!"

So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

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

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

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.

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?

What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"

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.)

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?

"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"