However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

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.'"

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

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?"

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

the one who is coming after me, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie."

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

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

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"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.

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

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 one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.

The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

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

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

So they collected and filled twelve baskets full of pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

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."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

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."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

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

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me has eternal life.

The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

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."

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

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

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.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

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.

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it, and he is the Judge.

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'