You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!”

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

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

After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

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

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God!”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

“I did one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

When Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? Even the prophets died. Who do You pretend to be?”

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day; he saw it and rejoiced.”

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”