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

Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

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

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

This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

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

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

This happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples.

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

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

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

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

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

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

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

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

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

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

While he was saying these things, many believed in him.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

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

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking around in the Temple inside the open porch of Solomon.

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

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away,

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.