But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

Then he told them, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."

He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

a birth which they had not from circumcision, nor from the constitution of the body, nor the institution of man, but from God.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].

And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

One of the two men who had listened to John and had become a follower of Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.

Nathaniel replied to him, "Can anything worthwhile come from Nazareth?" [Note: Nazareth had a bad reputation and Jewish writings made no prediction of a prophet coming from that area. See John 7:52]. Philip answered him, "Come and see."

Jesus answered, "You believe because I told you I had seen you under that fig tree? You shall see more than that."

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained 20 or 30 gallons.

And, when they had filled them to the brim, he added: "Now take some out, and carry it to the Master of the Feast." The servants did so.

When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

His disciples remembered that it had been written, "Zeal for Thy house will eat Me up,"

But He was speaking of the temple which was His body.

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

But Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all.

and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

He had to travel through Samaria,

Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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.

(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).”

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

So when the Samaritans had come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour the fever left him.”

Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives”; and he and his entire household believed and confidently trusted [in Him as Savior].

This is the second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed [in Cana] after He had come from Judea to Galilee [revealing that He is the Messiah].

Now in Jerusalem there was a pool of water near the Sheep Gate [Note: This was a city gate in the north wall]. It had five porticos [i.e., covered open areas along the outside of the Temple]. In the Hebrew language it was called Bethesda.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

So the Jews kept saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to pick up your pallet [because it is unlawful].”

And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and said to him, "Look, you have been made well; stop sinning or else something worse [i.e., than the handicap you had] will happen to you."

The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

and they will come out [i.e., in the general resurrection on the last day]. Those who had done what was good will be raised [from the dead] to [never ending] life; and those who had done what was evil will be raised [from the dead] to judgment [i.e., to be condemned].

nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

A large crowd was following Him because they had seen the signs (attesting miracles) which He continually performed on those who were sick.

But Jesus had gone up into the mountain, and, there, was sitting with his disciples.

and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

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 when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.

Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

And when evening had now come, his disciples went down to the sea,

and they entered into a boat, and were going over the sea unto Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

Then the water became choppy because of a strong wind that had begun to blow.

So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

Then they were willing to take Him on board the boat, and immediately the boat reached the [shore of the] land to which they were going.

On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but that his disciples had gone away alone;

(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)

after the Lord had given thanks) When they saw, that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also went aboard the vessels, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

So the Jews, [who were assembled in the synagogue. See verse 59] began complaining about Jesus because He had said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

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

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.

Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

For even his brothers had no belief in him.

When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?"

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath.

They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Therefore, many of the multitude, when they had heard this word, said: This is, in truth, the prophet.

And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.

Then the guards went [back] to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring Him [here with you]?”

Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,