In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

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.

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

because He was my Creator. And of His fullness we all received grace upon grace.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"

John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

He it is that cometh after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose."

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

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.

Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples;

and looking at Jesus [as he] was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"

He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.

One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip: and Jesus saith unto him, Follow me.

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

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

Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

When the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

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, "Everyone sets out the best wine first, and when people have had plenty to drink, he then sets out the poor quality [wine]. But you have kept the best wine until now." [Note: See Barnes Notes and The Gospel of John by Butler for evidence suggesting that this was not intoxicating wine].

This was the beginning of Jesus' [miraculous] signs, which He performed in Cana in Galilee. [In doing this] He demonstrated His glorious power and His disciples believed in Him.

And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

"Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

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.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men,

And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

And John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

For John was not yet cast into prison.

There was therefore a reasoning of the disciples of John with a Jew about purification.

And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

He left Judea and returned to Galilee. (Although it was actually His disciples who did the immersing and not Jesus Himself).

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.

You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain [i.e., Mt. Gerizim, which was visible from where they were sitting]; but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people should worship [God]."

And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

[So], the people went out from the town and came to where Jesus was.

While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

Jesus saith to him, 'Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

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

Then he asked them what the [exact] time was when his son began to get better. They said to him, "[It was] yesterday at seven o'clock in the morning that the fever left him." [Note: This would have been

So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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.

In these, was lying a throng of them who were sick, - blind, lame, withered.

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.

Jesus seeing this man lying there, and knowing that he was in that state now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?

The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

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

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

and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."

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.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

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].

"You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to the truth.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;

and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;