In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

The Word was with God in the beginning.

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'"

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

So they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified -- see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!"

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

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

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

So his parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

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

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

"Why wasn't this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)