John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

This happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

And many more believed because of what he said.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshipped him.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

Then Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written:

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.

After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, "He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Jesus' disciples said, "Well, now you're speaking plainly and not using figurative language.

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

After Jesus had said all of this, he went with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

So he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus from Nazareth."

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue or in the Temple, where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "I saw you in the garden with Jesus, didn't I?"

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called The Pavement, which in Hebrew is called Gabbatha.

There they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side of him with Jesus in the middle.

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

After Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and released his spirit.