And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

And they asked him, "Then who [are] you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!"

and said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

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

How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many [people]?"

The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."

So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

For no one does anything in secret and [yet] he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}. If you are doing these [things], reveal yourself to the world!"

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, [are you]? Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!" [[

So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman, said to her, "Where are those accusers of yours? Does no one condemn you?"

And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.

They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen--because you are not of God."

The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, [are you]? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself [to be]?"

So the Jews said to him, "{You are} not yet fifty years [old], and have you seen Abraham?"

They reviled him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!

They answered and said to him, "You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach us?" And they threw him out.

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock--one shepherd.

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep!

The Father and I are one."

Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

do you say about [he] whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him."

Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed {only needs} to wash [his] feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all [of you]."

(For he knew the one who would betray him; because of this he said, "Not all [of you] are clean.")

If you understand these [things], you are blessed if you do them.

And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are doing, do quickly!"

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you.

Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How are we able to know the way?"

On that day you will know that I [am] in my Father, and you [are] in me, and I [am] in you.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, why is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

"I am the vine; you [are] the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

I still have many [things] to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now.

Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you deliberating with one another about this--that I said, 'A little [while], and you will not see me, and again a little [while] and you will see me'?

So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking {plainly} and are telling [us] no figurative saying!

Now they understand that all [the things] that you have given me are from you,

I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

and all my [things] are yours, and your [things] [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them.

And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we [are].

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we [are] one--

Then Jesus, [because he] knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

Then he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

Jesus replied, "I said to you that I am [he]! So if you are looking for me, let these [men] go,"