In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

[Now] the true Light, who enlightens all mankind, was [indeed] coming into the world [i.e., to earth].

[Then] He came to His own [world, while on earth], but His own [people, the Israelites] did not welcome Him.

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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.

John gave testimony about Jesus, shouting out, "This person is the one about whom I said, 'He who will come after me ranks above me because He existed before me.'"

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

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

He is the One who will follow my ministry; [and] I do not deserve to untie his sandal lace."

All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

On the next day John [the Immerser] saw Jesus approaching him and said, "Look, [there is] the Lamb of God; He [will] take away the sin of the people of the world.

He is the One about whom I said, 'A man will come after me who ranks above me, for He existed before me.'

I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!

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").

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

Nathaniel said to him: How knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig-tree, I saw you.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater [things] than these!"

Then He said to him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man [the bridge between heaven and earth].”

Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

When the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

and when the banquet host tasted the water, which had [now] been turned into wine, he did not know where it had come from. (But the servants who had poured out the water knew [full well]). So, the banquet host called the groom

And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Scriptures], “Zeal (love, concern) for Your house [and its honor] will consume Me.”

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

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then the Jews replied, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and You will raise it up in three days?”

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Do not be surprised that I have told you, ‘You must be born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified].’

The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be possible?”

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, we speak only of what we [absolutely] know and testify about what we have [actually] seen [as eyewitnesses]; and [still] you [reject our evidence and] do not accept our testimony.

If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?

so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

The person who believes in Him will not be condemned, but the one who does not believe in Him has already been condemned, because he did not believe in the name of God's one and only Son.

For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

and baptized, while John was likewise baptizing in Enon, near Salim, it being a place abounding with water: so that people came to be baptized there.

And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

John answered, and said, "A man can receive nothing at all except it be given him from heaven.

You yourselves will testify for me, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

He has to become greater while I become less.

He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

but He that cometh from heaven, is above all: and what He hath seen and heard, this He testifieth: and yet scarce any one receiveth his testimony.

Whoever receives His testimony has set his seal [of approval] to this: God is true [and he knows that God cannot lie].

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

He who believes and trusts in the Son and accepts Him [as Savior] has eternal life [that is, already possesses it]; but he who does not believe the Son and chooses to reject Him, [disobeying Him and denying Him as Savior] will not see [eternal] life, but [instead] the wrath of God hangs over him continually.”

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

[About then] a Samaritan woman came [to the well] to draw water. Jesus said to her, "[Please] give me a drink."

The Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, How canst thou, a Jew, ask of me, who am a Samaritan woman, to drink? for Jews avoid all intercourse with Samaritans.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

The woman then left her water-pot, and went to the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did:

Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not receive honor in his own country. [Note: Jesus' reference here to his "own country" means Judea, while in Matt., Mark and Luke it refers to Nazareth].

Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

So he inquired of them the hour in which he fared well. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

Now in Jerusalem there was a pool of water near the Sheep Gate [Note: This was a city gate in the north wall]. It had five porticos [i.e., covered open areas along the outside of the Temple]. In the Hebrew language it was called Bethesda.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn [while] a crowd was in the place.

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.