Then some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

They were startled and panic-stricken, and thought they saw a ghost.

But he said to them, "Why are you so disturbed, and why do doubts arise in your minds?

Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

So they filled them full. And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast."

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

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

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

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.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

The woman said to him, "I see that you are a prophet, sir.

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

So the woman left her pitcher and went back to the town, and said to the people,

The people went out of the town to see him.

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, another of his disciples, said to him,

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

But in the evening his disciples went down to the sea

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

a strong wind was blowing and the sea was growing rough.

When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat, and they were terrified.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you mean to go away too?"

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing.

For no one acts in secret when he desires to be publicly known. If you are going to do these things, let the world see you."

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

You must not judge so externally; you must judge justly!"

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!"

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

So the people were divided about him,

"Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,