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.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

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.'"

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

So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

Then John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

When John's two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

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.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about -- Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathanael asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus replied, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!"

Jesus said to him, "Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these."

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine left."

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

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

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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!"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

"Sir," the woman said to him, "you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

So they left the town and began coming to him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

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.

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!"

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

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

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

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

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.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk."

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

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.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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

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.)

One of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!"

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

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.)

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

So Jesus' brothers advised him, "Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

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."

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,