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.

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

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!"

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."

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

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

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

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,

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

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

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

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?

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

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

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.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

But no one spoke of him in public, for fear of the Jews.

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

I do know him, because I come from him, and he has sent me here."

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

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

The Pharisees heard the people saying these things about him in whispers, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him.

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?

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So the people were divided about him,

and some of them wanted to arrest him, yet no one laid hands on him.

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

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

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.

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

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

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,

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

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

The Jews said to him, "You are not fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some said, "Yes! It is he!" Others said, "No! but he looks like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

They said to him, "Where is he?" He answered, "I do not know."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

So they asked the blind man again, "What have you to say about him, because he has made you able to see?" He said, "He is a prophet!"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God does not listen to sinful people, but if a man is devout and obeys God, God will listen to him.

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The man answered, "Who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him already, and it is he who is now talking to you."

And he said, "I believe, sir!" and he fell on his knees before him.

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

The watchman opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice, and he calls to his own sheep and leads them out.