got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

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.

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.

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

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

Jesus replied, "Do not complain about me to one another.

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

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

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."

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You don't want to go away too, do you?"

Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?"

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.

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

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

Jesus replied, "I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

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,

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest 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.

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

(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.)

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

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

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

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."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

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."

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

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

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

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.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

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.'

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

(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.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."

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."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.

Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

And many believed in Jesus there.

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Jesus replied, "Your brother will come back to life again."

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

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

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

Jesus wept.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)