So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

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

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on for two days in the place where he was,

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

Father, honor your own name!" Then there came a voice from the sky, "I have honored it, and I will honor it again!"

Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.

Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."