THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.

He was with God in the very beginning:

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John:

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony to the Light that he appeared.

The real Light, which enlightens every man, was coming then into the world:

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

This took place at Bethany on the opposite side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Next day again John was standing with two of his disciples;

He said to them, "Come and see." So they went and saw where he stayed, and stayed with him the rest of that day ??it was then about four in the afternoon.

One of the two men who heard what John said and went after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Peter.

Two days later a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee; the mother of Jesus was present,

Now the Jewish passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

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

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities;

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,

you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

And on the road his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

This was the second Sign which Jesus performed again after leaving Judaea for Galilee.

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

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

(The passover, the Jewish festival, was at hand.)

(He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

and the sea was getting up under a strong wind.

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father').

(He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him ??and he was one of the twelve.)

Now the Jewish festival of booths was near,

When the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

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

And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father;

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin ??for his own or for his parents' ??was he born blind?"

Jesus replied, "Neither for his own sin nor for his parents' ??it was to let the work of God be illustrated in him.

saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight."

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that.

That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.")

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them;

[vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter,

and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

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

(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.)

So, when he heard of the illness, he stayed where he was for two days; then,

and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, that you may believe. Come now, let us go to him."

"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."

Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him.

and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb.

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted.

This made Jesus chafe afresh, so he went to the tomb; it was a cave with a boulder to close it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it ??50 you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

(He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation,

So from that day their plan was to kill him.

Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem, to purify themselves before the passover.

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to betray him), said,

"Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?"

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

since it was owing to him that a number of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)