He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

Then He said to them, "Come, and you will see." So, they went and saw where He was staying and they stayed with Him that day. It was about ten o'clock in the morning. [Note: Hour designations in this book are being calculated by Roman time, but this would have been

and Jesus and His disciples had been invited to it also.

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained 20 or 30 gallons.

But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,

and saith unto him - Every man, first the good wine, setteth out; and, when they had been well-supplied, the inferior: - Thou, hast kept the good wine until, even now.

His disciples remembered that it had been written, "Zeal for Thy house will eat Me up,"

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

When, therefore, he had been raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered, that, this, he had been saying; and they believed in the Scripture, and in the word which Jesus had spoken.

Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.

The spirit, where it pleaseth, doth breathe, and, the sound thereof, thou hearest; but knowest not, whence it cometh and whither it goeth: Thus, is every one who hath been born of the spirit.

He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.

John [the Immerser] was also immersing people in Aenon, near Salem [Note: These locations are thought to have been in northeastern Judea, near the Jordan River], because there was a lot of water there; so people were coming to be immersed.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

You can bear testimony to me yourselves that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent as His announcer.'

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

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 and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

Then he asked them what the [exact] time was when his son began to get better. They said to him, "[It was] yesterday at seven o'clock in the morning that the fever left him." [Note: This would have been

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 a certain man was there, who had been sick eight and thirty years.

Jesus seeing him lie there, and knowing that he had been sick a long time, said to him, will you be cured?

the sick man answered him, sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water has been agitated: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

But he that had been healed knew not who it was, for Jesus had slidden away, there being a crowd in the place.

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple. And He said to him, "Behold, you have been made well; sin no more, lest something worse befall you."

And, on this account, were the Jews persecuting Jesus, because, these things, he had been doing, on Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

and they shall come forth; they who have done good actions to the resurrection of life; and they who have been guilty of foul practices, to the resurrection of damnation.

"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form [His majesty and greatness—what He is like].

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

For, if ye had been believing, in Moses, ye would, in that case, have been believing, in me: for, concerning me, he wrote.

and there was following him a great multitude, because they had been viewing the signs which he did upon such as were sick.

And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.

they gathered them therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which remained after they all had been eating.

They were willing, therefore, to receive him into the boat; and, straightway, the boat was at land, whither they had been slowly going.

The day following, the people who stay'd on the other side of the sea, perceiving that there had been only that single vessel in which his disciples were embark'd, that Jesus did not embark with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone: (however,

Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.

our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'

it is written in the prophets, "they shall be all taught of God." every man therefore that hath heard the father, and been instructed by him, cometh unto me.

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

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

Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."

Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, [have you]?

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"Does our Law pass judgment on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?"

They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search the scriptures and see that a prophet has not been raised out of Galilee.

Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;

they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act.

and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

Jesus said unto them - If, God, had been your father, ye had been loving me, for, I, from God, came forth, and am here; for, not even of myself, have I come, but, he, sent me forth.

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, From before Abraham was, I have been.

As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

Jesus answered, Neither hath this man been in fault, nor his parents; but it is in order to make manifest the works of God in him.

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They said therefore to him, How have thine eyes been opened?

This very man that had been blind, was at length brought to the Pharisees.

So the Pharisees put more questions to him about how his eyes had been made open. And he said to them, He put earth on my eyes, and I had a wash and am able to see.

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

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

They therefore again call'd the man that had been blind, and said to him, in the name of God tell the truth: for we know that this man is an impostor.

He answered and said: If he is a sinner, I know it not. One thing I do know, that having been blind, I now see.

From {time immemorial} it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.

Jesus said unto them - If, blind, ye had been, ye had not had sin; but, now, ye say, We see, your sin, abideth.

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

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

Others said, These are not words of one who has been possessed by a demon. A demon is not able to open the eyes of blind ones.

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

Jesus answered them, 'Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?

So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

The disciples replied to Him, "The Jews [there] have just been trying to stone you, and you are going back again?"

These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him.

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he has been set to sleep, he shall be saved.

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)