In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning.

All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

He was not the light, but came to bear witness of the light.

The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

John bore witness of him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'"

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.'

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples.

He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying; and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

When the wine was gone, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did.

and he had no need for anyone to bear witness of man, for he knew what was in man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were baptized.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified behold, he is baptizing, and all are going to him."

Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.

So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household.

This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a time in his light.

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

The sea rose because a strong wind was blowing.

Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they also got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who was to betray him, though one of the twelve.

Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

And there was much complaining among the people about him. Some said, "He is a good man"; others said, "No, on the contrary, he deceives the people."

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

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?"

So there was a division among the people because of him.

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before, and who was one of them, said to them,

they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

Then those who heard it went away one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last, and Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing before him.

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

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad."

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

He answered and said, "A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I received sight."

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.

And they asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

He answered, "Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know. One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see."

This figure Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.

Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was in the temple, walking in Solomon's Porch.

He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

And many came to him and they said, "John performed no sign, but all that John said about this man was true."

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So, when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was.

and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary sat in the house.

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

The Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

Then Mary took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, said,

"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief; and as he had the money box, he used to take what was put into it.