John gave testimony concerning Him and cried aloud, saying, "This is He of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me,' for He was before me."

"What then?" they inquired; "are you Elijah?" "I am not," he said. "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said, "if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

when he saw Jesus passing by, and said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you shall be called Cephas" --that is to say, Peter (or 'Rock')

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you," said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you."

"Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig-tree,'" replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."

Now the wine ran short; whereupon the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."

His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he tells you to do, do it."

Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.

Then He said, "Now, take some out, and carry it to the President of the feast."

and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior. But you have kept the good wine till now."

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market."

"Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it."

When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea; and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.

they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I am His appointed forerunner.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

"I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

They left the town and set out to go to Him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."

Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.

"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

"He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?"

Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."

Then Jesus went up the hill, and sat there with His disciples.

And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

He said this to put Philip to the test, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

Thereupon the people, having seen the miracle He had performed, said, "This is indeed the Prophet who was to come into the world."

They were terrified; but He called to them. "It is I," He said, "do not be afraid."

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"Sir," they said, "always give us that bread."

But it is as I have said to you: you have seen me and yet you do not believe.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum.

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

"Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil."

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

Among the mass of the people there was much muttered debate about Him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so: he is imposing on the people."

The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"

Some however of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are wanting to kill?

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.

He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

"No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.

"Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.

When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either," said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

"You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true."

Again He said to them, "I am going away. Then you will try to find me, but you will die in your sins. Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come."

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

"Our father is Abraham," they said. "If you were Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "it is Abraham's deeds that you would be doing.

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."

"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."

So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."

The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,

That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself."

A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."