John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full.

"If you knew of the gift of God," replied Jesus, "and who it is that is saying to you 'Give me some water,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you 'living water'."

But whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him shall become a spring welling up within him--a source of Immortal Life."

God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly."

At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?'

Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him: "Take something to eat, Rabbi."

"Can any one have brought him anything to eat?" the disciples said to one another.

"My food," replied Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

But far more came to believe in him on account of what he said himself,

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;

And, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.

So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. "It was yesterday, about one o'clock," they said, "that the fever left him."

By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him 'Your son is living'; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him: "You are cured now; do not sin again, for fear that something worse may befall you."

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things--so that you will be filled with wonder.

So that all men may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son fails to honor the Father who sent him.

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

For, just as the Father has inherent Life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent Life within him;

And, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.

I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

And you have not taken his Message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his Messenger.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

A great crowd of people, however, followed him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were afflicted.

Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip: "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he meant to do.

But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him King, retired again up the hill, quite alone.

When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him.

And, when they found him on the other side of the Sea, they said: "When did you get here, Rabbi?"

Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval."

"The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger."

For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

For it is the will of my Father that every one who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have Immortal Life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last Day."

"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me.

Not that any one has seen the Father, except him who is from God--he has seen the Father.

He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, has Immortal Life; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, remains united to me, and I to him.

Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me." For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;

After this many of his disciples drew back, and did not go about with him any longer.

He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who was about to betray him, though he was one of the Twelve.

After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death.

His brothers said to him: "Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

The Jews were looking for him at the Festival and asking 'Where is he?';

And there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying 'He is a good man;' others: 'No! he is leading the people astray.'

No one, however, spoke freely about him, for fear of the Jews.

The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.

But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.

Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and he sent me as his Messenger."

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

The Pharisees heard the people whispering about him in this way, and so the Chief Priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him;

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

"Where is this man going," the Jews asked one another, "that we shall not find him? Will he go to our countrymen abroad, and teach foreigners?

On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

Some of them wanted to arrest him, and yet no one touched him.

When the officers returned to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, they were asked: "Why have you not brought him?"

"Have any of our leading men believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

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

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

"I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him."

Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

While he was speaking in this way, many came to believe in him.

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

And yet you have not learned to know him; but I know him; and, if I were to say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I lay his Message to heart.

At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.

"Neither the man nor the parents," replied Jesus; "but he was born blind that the work of God should be made plain in him.

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"Yes," some said, "it is"; while others said: "No, but he is like him." The man himself said: "I am he."

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

This was why his parents said 'He is old enough; ask him.'

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

We know that God never listens to bad men, but, when a man is god-fearing and does God's will, God listens to him.

"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.

Jesus heard of their having put him out; and, when he had found the man, he asked: "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

"Tell me who he is, Sir," he replied, "so that I may believe in him."

"Not only have you seen him," said Jesus; "but it is he who is now speaking to you."

"Then, Sir, I do believe," said the man, bowing to the ground before him;

Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said: "Then are we blind too?"

For him the watchman opens the door; and the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.