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

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

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?"

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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."

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

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

"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.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

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

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 comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.

The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

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

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

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.

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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.

Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

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.

They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

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, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

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

and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

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

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

"If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not trustworthy.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

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

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

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

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!"

But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid!"

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

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

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'?"

It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

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

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

because my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.

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.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

Jesus answered them, "I chose you, the Twelve, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil."

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

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 the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

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

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

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.

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.