He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

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

I didn’t know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel.”

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!”

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

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”).

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

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.”

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

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

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

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.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew about purification.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

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.

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

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

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

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.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

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.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has 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.

After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

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?”

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

Then a high wind arose, and the sea began to churn.

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

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.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

So a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

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

[So each one went to his house.

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In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

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

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

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.