(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

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

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

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

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.”

“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

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.

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

“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.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

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.

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

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

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

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

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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.”

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked.

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.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

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

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

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

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

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always!”

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

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.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this!”

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was left, with the woman in the center.

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

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

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?”

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

“Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?”

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.