In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.

He is the One who was face to face with God in the beginning.

It was through Him that everything came into existence, and apart from Him not a single thing came into existence.

It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

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

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

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

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

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

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching; so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

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

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

And at once the man was well, and picked up his pallet, and went to walking. Now it was the Sabbath.

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

And so Jesus went up on the hill and was sitting there with His disciples.

Now the Passover, the Jewish feast, was approaching.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

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

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

When the people, therefore, saw the wonder-works that He performed, they began to say, "This is surely the prophet who was to come into the world."

and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

The sea was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before?

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, for he was going to betray Him, although he was one of the Twelve.

Now the Jewish feast of Dwelling in Tents was approaching.

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

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

Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.

He said these things in the treasury as He was teaching in the temple, and yet no one ventured to arrest Him, because the time had not yet come for Him.

They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.

Even while He was saying this, many believed in Him.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?"

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to show what God could do in his case.

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see."

Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, and do you affirm that he was born blind? If so, how is it then that he now can see?"

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

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see."

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

At that time came the Feast of Rededication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking in Solomon's portico.

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who poured the perfume upon the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.

But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

for He had not yet come into the village, but He was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Now Jesus sighed again and continued to sigh as He went to the grave. It was a cave with a stone lying over the mouth of it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing about this;

Now he did not say this on his own authority, but because he was high priest that year he uttered this prophecy from God, that Jesus was to die for the nation,

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

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

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.

Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was going to betray Him, said,

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars and the money given to the poor?"

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

The next day the vast crowd that had come to the feast, on hearing that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.