For John was not yet cast into prison.

You yourselves will testify for me, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."

“He who comes from [heaven] above is above all others; he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks [about things] of the earth [his viewpoint and experience are earthly]. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Whoever receives His testimony has set his seal [of approval] to this: God is true [and he knows that God cannot lie].

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

Now He had to go through Samaria.

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

The woman says to him, Lord, thou hest no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together.

For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,

And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

After two days He left there for Galilee.

For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

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

Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

and they will come out—those who did good things [will come out] to a resurrection of [new] life, but those who did evil things [will come out] to a resurrection of judgment [that is, to be sentenced].

"I cannot do anything by my own [authority]. I judge [people] based on what I hear [i.e., from the Father] and my judgment [of them] is just, because I do not look for what I want [to do], but for what He who sent me [i.e., God] wants.

I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.

"You people have sent to John [the Immerser, for information. See 1:19] and he has given true testimony [about me].

But the testimony which I receive is not from man; I am saying this for your Salvation.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

I do not receive glory and approval from men;

but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.

How can you believe [in Me], when you [seek and] receive glory and approval from one another, and yet you do not seek the glory and approval which comes from the one and only God?

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

For if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

Now the time for the Jewish Passover Festival was getting close.

And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?

Then said Jesus, Make the men sit down. For there was plenty of grass on the spot. Therefore the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Then they collected them, and filled twelve baskets with fragments out of the five barley-loaves, which were more than enough for those who had eaten.

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

The Sea, too, was getting rough, for a strong wind was blowing.

Then, when they had rowed three or four miles [and were near the center of the sea], they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat; and they were [terribly] frightened.

But he said to them, It is I, have no fear.

Then they were willing to take Him on board the boat, and immediately the boat reached the [shore of the] land to which they were going.

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

Jesus answered, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you have been searching for Me, not because you saw the signs (attesting miracles), but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?

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."

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

Every person [Note: The Greek says, "every thing"] whom the Father gives me will [eventually] come to me [i.e., for salvation]; and I will never turn away that person who comes to me.

For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.