The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

I did see it; and my testimony is that He is the Son of God."

and as he saw Jesus passing by he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God!"

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

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.

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

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

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

Jesus performed this, the first of His wonder-works, at Cana in Galilee. By it He showed His glorious power, and so His disciples believed in Him.

And in the temple court He found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons; the money-changers, too, seated at their tables.

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

But He meant the sanctuary of His body.

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

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.

But He would not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men

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

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?"

If you do not believe the earthly things I tell you, how can you believe the heavenly things, if I tell you about them?

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

He who comes from above is far above all others. He who springs from earth belongs to the earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is far above all others.

He continues to bear testimony to what He has actually seen and heard, and yet no one accepts His testimony.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

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

He left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

And He had to go through Samaria.

So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

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 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 her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

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

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

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

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

for He Himself declared that a prophet had no honor in his own country.

So when He reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, for they had seen everything that He had done at the feast in Jerusalem, for they too had attended the feast.

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."

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

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.

This is the second wonder-work that Jesus performed after He had come back from Judea to Galilee.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

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.

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

Then He answered them, "My Father is still working, and so am I."

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.

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

He has also granted to Him authority to act as Judge because He is the Son of Man.

There is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony which He gives to me is of force.

You yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

And a vast crowd continued to follow Him, for they pressed on to view the wonder-works which He performed for the sick people.

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

When they had plenty, He said to His disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, that nothing be wasted."

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."

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

But He said to them, "It is I; stop being afraid!"

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Our forefathers in the desert ate the manna, as the Scripture says, 'He gave them out of heaven bread to eat.'"

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except Him who is from God; of course, He has seen the Father.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

He said this as He taught in the synagogue at Capernaum.

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

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

So He continued, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless it is granted to him by my Father."

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