He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him.

And I did not know him: but he that sent me baptising with water, he said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending as a dove, and resting upon him, that is he who baptiseth with the Holy Ghost.

And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

And Jesus turned and saw them following Him, and asked them, “What do you want?” They answered Him, “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?”

The next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me [as My disciple, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher, and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

[As] Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, He said [this] about him, "Look, [there is] a true Israelite, a completely honest man!"

Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

So, Jesus said to her, "[My dear] woman, what do you want me to do [about it]? My time [i.e., to be revealed to people as the Messiah] has not yet come."

Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing), containing twenty or thirty gallons each.

And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,

and said to him, "Everybody, as a rule, serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Then, as the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money-changers, and overturned their tables,

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

Then the Jews retorted, “What sign (attesting miracle) can You show us as [proof of] your authority for doing these things?”

But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

As soon, therefore, as he was risen from death again, his disciples remembered that he thus said unto them. And they believed the scripture, and the words which Jesus had said.

And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

who came to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi (Teacher), we know [without any doubt] that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs [these wonders, these attesting miracles] that You do unless God is with him.”

As the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound of it, but knowest not whence it cometh, or whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

For as yet John was not cast into prison.

As the result, a discussion having arisen on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification,

John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God].

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

the bridegroom is he that hath a right to the bride: as for the friend of the bridegroom, who is nigh his person and heareth him, he greatly rejoyces at the voice of the bridegroom: upon this account my joy is compleat.

He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks as of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all,

What He has [actually] seen and heard, of that He testifies; and yet no one accepts His testimony [as true].

For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God's own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.

Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

And as He must pass through the country of Samaria, He came to a Samaritan city called Sichar,

Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

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.”

But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

"I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--'the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."

Upon this his disciples came, and were surpriz'd at his conversing with the woman: yet none of them said, what did you ask her? or, why do you talk with her?

Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

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

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- 'He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

Then as the Samaritans had come to Him, they begged Him that He would stay with them. And He stayed there two days.

As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

Then as soon as he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, which had seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they went also unto the feast day.

As soon as the same heard that Jesus was come out of Jewry, into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him, that he would descend, and heal his son: For he was even ready to die.

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

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.

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.

Now, this again, as, a second sign, Jesus did, after coming out of Judaea into Galilee.

The sick man answered him - Sir! I have, no man, that, as soon as the water hath been troubled, might thrust me into the pool; but, while, I, am coming, another, before me, goeth down.

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

This made the Jews more determined than ever to kill Him, for not only was He breaking the Sabbath [from their viewpoint], but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

So, Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son [of God] cannot do anything on His own [i.e., independently of the Father]; but [He does] what He sees His Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does as well.

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

"Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who listens to my message and believes [in] the One who sent me [i.e., God] has never ending life [i.e., as a hope. See Titus 1:2; 3:7]. He will not be judged [and condemned], but has [already] passed from being [spiritually] dead to being [spiritually] alive.

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

You have yourselves sent to John, and he as testified to the Truth.

But the testimony which I have is far greater than the testimony of John; for the works that the Father has given Me to finish—the very same works [that is, the miracles and proofs of My deity] that I am [now] doing—testify about Me, [by providing evidence] that the Father has sent Me.

And, his word, ye have not, within you abiding - because, as touching him whom, he, sent, in him, ye, believe not.

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

Do not think that I [am the One who] will accuse you before the Father. There [already] is one who accuses you: Moses, [the very one] in whom you have placed your hope [for salvation].

and there was following him a great multitude, because they had been viewing the signs which he did upon such as were sick.

And Jesus said, 'Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,

And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

And as a strong wind was blowing, the waves ran high.

And when the disciples had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the [surface of the] water. They became afraid as Jesus got closer to their boat.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus.

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

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

Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

But as I told you, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

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, "Did I not myself select you as the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil."

His brothers said to him: "Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.