If you will not believe when I speak to you about things on earth, how will you believe if I speak to you about things in heaven?

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

(John had not yet been thrown into prison).

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink ??me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

"Ah, sir," said the woman, "give me this water, so that I need not thirst or come all this road to draw water."

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

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

You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting!

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

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.

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope!

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

Philip answered, "Seven pounds' worth of bread would not be enough for them, for everybody to get even a morsel."

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe.

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

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'?"

Not that anyone has seen the Father ??he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

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;

After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?"

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

(for even his brothers did not believe in him).

Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand;

Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet."

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

Did not Moses give you the Law? ??and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?"

Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath.

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill?

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,

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

you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come."

The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks?

What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?"

(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?

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

Then the attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him with you?"

"But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"

Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."

So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid."

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.

and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself ??there is myself and the Father who sent me.

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.

He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world.

They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father;

He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

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

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.

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"

Jesus replied, "I am not mad: I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

However, I do not aim at my own credit; there is One who cares for my credit, and he is judge.

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.

Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?"

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

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?"

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

Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

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

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."

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."

He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?"

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.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight ??and so your sin remains."

Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;

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

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them;

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

The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.

Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?"

Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe,

because you do not belong to my sheep.

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."