Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.

For at this time John had not been put into prison.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism

(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.

And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

So they went out of the town and came to him.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

Now this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.

The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

But he said to them, It is I, have no fear.

Then they readily took him into the boat: and straight away the boat was at the land to which they were going.

So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum.

When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

He was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be false to Jesus--one of the twelve.

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.

Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?

However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

Now in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do you say about it?

But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.