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

This one was in the beginning with God.

In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity.

A man came, sent from God, {whose name was} John.

That one was not the light, but [came] in order that he could testify about the light.

The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

These [things] took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

On the next day again John was standing [there], and two of his disciples,

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

He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour).

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

and because he did not {need} anyone {to testify} about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

After these [things] Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.

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!"

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),

And it was necessary [for] him to go through Samaria.

And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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?"

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And [there] was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

This man, [when he] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Now [as] he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

After these [things] [there] was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

And a certain man was there who had [been] thirty-eight years in his sickness.

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 became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn [while] a crowd was in the place.

The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

That one was the lamp [which was] burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his light.

And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

(Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.)

{Then Jesus, when he looked up} and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these [people] can eat?"

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now [there] was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand [in] number.

And the sea began to be stirred up [because] a strong wind was blowing.

On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Then [what] if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

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.)

(Now he was speaking about Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot, because this one--one of the twelve--was going to betray him.)

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

Now the feast of the Jews--the [feast of] Tabernacles--was near.

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously--who was one of them--said to them,

they said to him, testing [him], "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!

Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.

(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

[While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.

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}.

Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw [it] and was glad."

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!"

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared [it] on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, [and] I received sight."

(Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.)

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know--that [although I] was blind, now I see!"

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.

Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon.

And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)

and I am glad {for your sake} that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.

Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)

So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, [when they] saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, [because they] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was [and] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do [something] so that this man also would not have died?"

Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it.