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.

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

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

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

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.

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 tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

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.

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

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.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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.)

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

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

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.

The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

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,

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

(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.)

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why didn't you bring him back with you?"

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

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

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

You aren't greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?"

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

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

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?"

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

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.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

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

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

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

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

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.

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

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"