and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

and said to him, "Everybody serves the good wine first, and then the poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

Now the Jewish passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,

and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities;

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';

John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband';

you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

Now our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, whereas you Jews declare the proper place for worship is at Jerusalem."

You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know ??for salvation comes from the Jews.

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing."

Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

(for Jesus himself testified that a prophet enjoys no honour in his own country);

Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes,

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

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

(though I accept no testimony from man ??I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

I accept no credit from men,

but I know there is no love to God in you;

Now Jesus went up the hill and sat down there with his disciples.

(He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

but he said to them, "It is I, have no fear";

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven."

They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.

Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?"

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father').

Now the Jewish festival of booths was near,

And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from."

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."

They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?"

Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I; be off, and never sin again."]

Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.

You judge by the outside. I judge no one;

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does.

I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!

but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!

but you do not understand him. I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him and I hold to his word.

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man."

"Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know."

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that.

But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see."

We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me

(just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;