This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

This happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God."

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

they told him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?"

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

After this, he told the disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,