(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water."

So they filled them full. And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast."

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,

The woman said to him, "I see that you are a prophet, sir.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

Jesus said to her, "I who am talking to you am he!"

So the woman left her pitcher and went back to the town, and said to the people,

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

And a great many more believed because of what he said,

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

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

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

But Jesus went up on the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, another of his disciples, said to him,

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

Then they said to him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you?

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you mean to go away too?"

So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

One of them, Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus, said to them,

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

As he said this, many believed in him.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."