"In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "unless a man owes his birth to Water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

"What! You a teacher of Israel," exclaimed Jesus, "and yet do not understand this!

After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the country parts of Judea; and there he stayed with them, and baptized.

(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized),

Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about mid-day.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her- - "Give me some to drink,"

"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'."

"All who drink of this water," replied Jesus, "will be thirsty again;

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" replied Jesus,

"Believe me," replied Jesus, "a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.

"I am he," Jesus said to her, "I who am speaking to you."

And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

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

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

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

After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;

So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the King's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

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.

Jesus answered: "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

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

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.

This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.

Sometime after this there was a Jewish Festival; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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?"

"Stand up," said Jesus, "take up your mat, and walk about."

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

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.

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

But Jesus replied: "My Father works to this very hour, and I work also."

So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee--otherwise called the Lake of Tiberias.

Jesus went up the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

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?"

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

And then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

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.

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

But Jesus said to them: "It is I; do not be afraid!"

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.

"In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "it is not on account of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you had the bread to eat and were satisfied.

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

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "Moses did not give you the Bread from Heaven, but my Father does give you the true Bread from Heaven;

"I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again.

Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

"Do not murmur among yourselves," said Jesus in reply.

"In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have not Life within you.

All this Jesus said in a Synagogue, when he was teaching in Capernaum.

But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

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;

So Jesus said to the Twelve: "Do you also wish to leave me?"

"Did not I myself choose you to be the Twelve?" replied Jesus; "and yet, even of you, one is playing the 'Devil's' part."

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.

"My time," answered Jesus, "is not come yet, but your time is always here.

But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up--not publicly, but privately.

About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.

So, in reply, Jesus said: "My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.

"There was one thing I did," replied Jesus, "at which you are all still wondering.

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.

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

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.)

So there was a sharp division among the people on account of Jesus.

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

"Even if I bear testimony to myself," answered Jesus, "my testimony is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I am going.

"Where is your father, then?" they asked. "You know neither me nor my Father," replied Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have also known my Father."

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.

Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

"You," added Jesus, "are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not;

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

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;

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

"Our father is Abraham," was their answer. "If you are Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "do what Abraham did.

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

"I am not possessed by a demon," Jesus answered, "but I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.

"If I do honor to myself," answered Jesus, "such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honor--and you say that he is your God;

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

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

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

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

Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

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

His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

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?"

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

And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.

It was winter; and Jesus was walking in the Temple Courts, in the Colonnade of Solomon,

"I have told you so," replied Jesus, "and you do not believe me. The work that I am doing in my Father's name bears testimony to me.

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"