He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”

For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to do.

Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”

Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”

This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”

For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?

Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they?

However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.”

But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?”

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.”

Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”

But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

they *said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.

They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?”

Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from.”

If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”

And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”

This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

Then after this He *said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

This He said, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?”

Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.

If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”

Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

“Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.”

Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.

By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

This I command you, that you love one another.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.