So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

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

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

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

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

So they collected and filled twelve baskets full of pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You don't want to leave, too, do you?"

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.