All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

John answered them, "I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!"

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

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

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

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

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

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

"I do not accept praise from people,

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

But he said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

Jesus replied, "Do not complain about me to one another.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.