Category: John

Prologue

1 In the beginningwas the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 All things were createdthrough Him,

and apart from Him not one thing was created

that has been created.

4 Life was in Him,

and that life was the lightof men.

5 That light shinesin the darkness,

yet the darkness did not overcomeit.

6 There was a man named John

who was sent from God.

7 He came as a witness

to testify about the light,

so that all might believe through him.

8 He was not the light,

but he came to testifyabout the light.

9 The true light,who gives light to everyone,

was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world,

and the world was createdthrough Him,

yet the world did not recognize Him.

11 He came to His own,

and His own peopledid not receive Him.

12 But to all who did receiveHim,

He gave them the rightto bechildrenof God,

to those who believein His name,

13 who were born,

not of blood,

or of the willof the flesh,

or of the will of man,

but of God.

14 The Wordbecame flesh

and took up residenceamong us.

We observed His glory,

the glory as the One and OnlySonfrom the Father,

full of grace and truth.

15 (John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,

“This was the One of whom I said,

‘The One coming after mehas surpassed me,

because He existed before me.’ ”)

16 Indeed, we have all received graceafter grace

from His fullness,

17 for the law was given through Moses,

grace and truthcame through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has ever seen God.

The One and OnlySon—

the One who is at the Father’sside—

He has revealed Him.

John the Baptist’s Testimony

19 This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalemsent priestsand Levitesto ask him, “Who are you? ”

20 He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

21 “What then? ” they asked him. “Are you Elijah? ”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet? ”

“No,” he answered.

22 “Who are you, then? ” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself? ”

23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord— just as Isaiahthe prophet said.”

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

25 So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet? ”

26 “I baptize withwater,”John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know Him.

27 He is the One coming after me,whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

28 All this happened in Bethanyacross the Jordan,where John was baptizing.

The Lamb of God

29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God,who takes away the sinof the world!

30 This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

31 I didn’t know Him,but I came baptizing withwater so He might be revealedto Israel.”

32 And John testified, “I watched the Spiritdescending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him.

33 I didn’t know Him, but Hewho sent me to baptize withwater told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on — He is the One who baptizes withthe Holy Spirit.’

34 I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God! ”

35 Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.

36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God! ”

37 The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

38 When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them,“What are you looking for? ”

They said to Him, “Rabbi”(which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying? ”

39 “Come and you’ll see,”He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

40 Andrew,Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

41 He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah! ”(which means “AnointedOne”),

42 and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said,“You are Simon, son of John.You will be called Cephas”(which means “Rock”).

Philip and Nathanael

43 The next day Hedecided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philipand told him,“Follow Me! ”

44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida,the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip found Nathanaeland told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph,from Nazareth! ”

46 “Can anything goodcome out of Nazareth? ” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

47 Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him,“Here is a true Israelite;no deceit is in him.”

48 “How do you know me? ” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,”Jesus answered.

49 “Rabbi,”Nathanael replied, “You are the Sonof God! You are the King of Israel! ”

50 Jesus responded to him,“Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? Youwill see greater things than this.”

51 Then He said,“I assure you: Youwill see heaven opened and the angels of Godascending and descendingon the Son of Man.”

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The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine

1 On the third day a wedding took place in Canaof Galilee.Jesus’ motherwas there, and

2 Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

4 “What has this concern of yours to do with Me,woman? ”Jesus asked.“My hourhas not yet come.”

5 “Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

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

7 “Fill the jars with water,”Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

8 Then He said to them,“Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.”And they did.

9 When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from — though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

10 and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

11 Jesus performed this first signin Canaof Galilee.He displayedHis glory,and His disciples believed in Him.

12 After this, He went down to Capernaum,together with His mother, His brothers,and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Cleansing the Temple Complex

13 The Jewish Passoverwas near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 In the temple complexHe found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

15 After making a whip out of cords,He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheepand oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.

16 He told those who were selling doves,“Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’shouseinto a marketplace! ”

17 And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zealfor Your house will consumeMe.

18 So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things? ”

19 Jesus answered,“Destroy this sanctuary,and I will raise it up in three days.”

20 Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days? ”

21 But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

22 So when He was raised from the dead,His disciples remembered that He had said this.And they believed the Scriptureand the statement Jesus had made.

23 While He was in Jerusalemat the Passover Festival,many trusted in His namewhen they saw the signs He was doing.

24 Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all

25 and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

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Jesus and Nicodemus

1 There was a man from the Phariseesnamed Nicodemus,a rulerof the Jews.

2 This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi,we know that You have come from Godas a teacher,for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

3 Jesus replied,“I assure you: Unless someone is born again,he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 “But how can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born? ”

5 Jesus answered,“I assure you: Unless someone is bornof water and the Spirit,he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

6 Whatever is born of the fleshis flesh, and whatever is born of the Spiritis spirit.

7 Do not be amazed that I told you that youmust be bornagain.

8 The windblows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

9 “How can these things be? ” asked Nicodemus.

10 “Are you a teacherof Israel and don’t know these things? ”Jesus replied.

11 “I assure you:We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but youdo not accept Our testimony.

12 If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

13 No one has ascendedinto heavenexcept the One who descended from heaven— the Son of Man.

14 Just as Moseslifted up the snake in the wilderness,so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

15 so that everyone who believes in Him willhave eternal life.

16 “For God lovedthe world in this way:He gave His One and OnlySon,so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

17 For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemnthe world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

18 Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,because he has not believed in the nameof the One and Only Sonof God.

19 “This, then, is the judgment: The lighthas come into the world,and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

20 For everyone who practices wicked things hatesthe light and avoids it,so that his deedsmay not be exposed.

21 But anyone who lives bythe truth comes to the light, so that his worksmay be shown to be accomplished by God.”

Jesus and John the Baptist

22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

23 Johnalso was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

24 since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

25 Then a dispute arose between John’s disciplesand a Jewabout purification.

26 So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi,the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan,is baptizing — and everyone is flocking to Him.”

27 John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

29 He who has the brideis the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatlyat the groom’s voice. So this joyof mine is complete.

30 He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The One from Heaven

31 The One who comes from aboveis above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms.The One who comes from heaven is above all.

32 He testifiesto what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

33 The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

34 For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since Hegives the Spiritwithout measure.

35 The Father loves the Sonand has given all things into His hands.

36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

1 When Jesusknew that the Phariseesheard He was makingand baptizing more disciples than John

2 (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

3 He left Judeaand went again to Galilee.

4 He had to travel through Samaria,

5 so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the propertythat Jacobhad given his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s wellwas there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,”Jesus said to her,

8 for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9 “How is it that You, a Jew,ask for a drink from me, a Samaritanwoman? ” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate withSamaritans.

10 Jesus answered,“If you knew the gift of God,and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

11 “Sir,”said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

13 Jesus said,“Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again — ever!In fact, the water I will give him will become a wellof water springing up within him for eternal life.”

15 “Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

16 “Go call your husband,”He told her,“and come back here.”

17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ ”Jesus said.

18 “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 Jesus told her,“Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22 You Samaritansworship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

24 God is spirit,and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiahis coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

26 “I am He,”Jesus told her,“the One speaking to you.”

The Ripened Harvest

27 Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want? ” or “Why are You talking with her? ”

28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah? ”

30 They left the town and made their way to Him.

31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi,eat something.”

32 But He said,“I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33 The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat? ”

34 “My food is to do the will of Himwho sent Meand to finish His work,”Jesus told them.

35 “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Openyour eyes and look at the fields, for they are readyfor harvest.

36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

37 For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited fromtheir labor.”

The Savior of the World

39 Now many Samaritansfrom that town believed in Him because of what the woman saidwhen she testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”

40 Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him,they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

41 Many more believed because of what He said.

42 And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Saviorof the world.”

A Galilean Welcome

43 After two days He left there for Galilee.

44 Jesus Himself testifiedthat a prophet has no honor in his own country.

45 Whenthey entered Galilee, the Galileanswelcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalemduring the festival.For they also had gone to the festival.

The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son

46 Then He went again to Canaof Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judeainto Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

48 Jesus told him,“Unless you people see signs and wonders,you will not believe.”

49 “Sir,”the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies! ”

50 “Go,”Jesus told him,“your son will live.”The man believed whatJesus said to him and departed.

51 While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

52 He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morningthe fever left him,” they answered.

53 The fatherrealized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him,“Your son will live.”Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

54 This, therefore, was the second signJesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

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The Third Sign: Healing the Sick

1 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 By the Sheep Gatein Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesdain Hebrew, which has five colonnades.

3 Within these lay a large number of the sick — blind, lame, and paralyzed — waiting for the moving of the water,

4 because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had .

5 One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time,He said to him,“Do you want to get well? ”

7 “Sir,”the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

8 “Get up,”Jesus told him,“pick up your mat and walk! ”

9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

10 so the Jewssaid to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath!It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

11 He replied, “The man who made me welltold me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

12 “Who is this man who told you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’? ” they asked.

13 But the man who was cured did not know who it was,because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple complexand said to him,“See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

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

Honoring the Father and the Son

16 Therefore, the Jews began persecutingJesusbecause He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17 But Jesus responded to them,“My Fatheris still working, and I am working also.”

18 This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him:Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

19 Then Jesus replied,“I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Fatherdoes, the Son also does these things in the same way.

20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater worksthan these so that you will be amazed.

21 And just as the Father raisesthe dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

22 The Father,in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father.Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Life and Judgment

24 “I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal lifeand will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

25 “I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here,when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Sonto have life in Himself.

27 And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment,because He is the Son of Man.

28 Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

29 and come out — those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

30 “I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgmentis righteous,because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Four Witnesses to Jesus

31 “If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

32 There is Another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives about Me is valid.

33 You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

34 I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

35 Johnwas a burning and shining lamp,and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

36 “But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish.These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sentMe.

37 The Father who sent Me has Himself testifiedabout Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

38 You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

39 You pore overthe Scripturesbecause you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

40 And you are not willingto come to Meso that you may have life.

41 “I do not accept gloryfrom men,

42 but I know you — that you have no love for Godwithin you.

43 I have come in My Father’s name,yet you don’t accept Me.If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

44 How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the onlyGod.

45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses,on whom you have set your hope.

46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

47 But if you don’t believe his writings,how will you believe My words? ”

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The Fourth Sign: Feeding 5,000

1 Afterthis, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee(or Tiberias).

2 And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

3 So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

4 Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

5 Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him,He asked Philip,“Where will we buy bread so these people can eat? ”

6 He asked this to test him,for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

7 Philip answered, “Two hundred denariiworth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

8 One of His disciples, Andrew,SimonPeter’sbrother, said to Him,

9 “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish — but what are they for so many? ”

10 Then Jesus said,“Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated — so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

12 When they were full, He told His disciples,“Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

13 So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

14 When the people saw the signHe had done, they said, “This really is the Prophetwho was to comeinto the world! ”

15 Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king,He withdrew againto the mountain by Himself.

The Fifth Sign: Walking on Water

16 Whenevening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum.Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

18 Then a high wind arose, and the sea began to churn.

19 After they had rowed about three or four miles,they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

20 But He said to them,“It is I.Don’t be afraid! ”

21 Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

The Bread of Life

22 The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat.They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

23 Some boats from Tiberiascame near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

25 When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi,when did You get here? ”

26 Jesus answered,“I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you sawthe signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

27 Don’t work for the food that perishesbut for the food that lasts for eternal life,which the Son of Manwill give you, because God the Fatherhas set His seal of approval on Him.”

28 “What can we do to perform the works of God? ” they asked.

29 Jesus replied,“This is the workof God — that you believe in the One He has sent.”

30 “What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You? ” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

31 Our fathers ate the mannain the wilderness,just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

32 Jesus said to them,“I assure you: Mosesdidn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always! ”

35 “I amthe bread of life,”Jesus told them.“No one who comes to Mewill ever be hungry,and no one who believes in Mewill ever be thirstyagain.

36 But as I told you, you’ve seen Me,and yet you do not believe.

37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

38 For I have come down from heaven,not to do My will, but the will of Himwho sent Me.

39 This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raisethem up on the last day.

40 For this is the will of My Father:that everyone who sees the Sonand believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raisehim up on the last day.”

41 Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said,“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph,whose father and mother we know? How can He now say,‘I have come down from heaven’? ”

43 Jesus answered them,“Stop complaining among yourselves.

44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me drawshim, and I will raise him up on the last day.

45 It is written in the Prophets:And they will all be taught by God.Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Fathercomes to Me —

46 not that anyone has seen the Fatherexcept the One who is from God.He has seen the Father.

47 “I assure you: Anyone who believeshas eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your fathers ate the mannain the wilderness,and they died.

50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will liveforever.The bread that I will give for the lifeof the world is My flesh.”

52 At that, the Jews arguedamong themselves,“How can this man give us His flesh to eat? ”

53 So Jesus said to them,“I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Manand drink His blood,you do not have life in yourselves.

54 Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My bloodhas eternal life, and I will raisehim up on the last day,

55 because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

56 The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

57 Just as the livingFather sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will livebecause of Me.

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the mannayour fathers ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

59 He said these things while teaching in the synagoguein Capernaum.

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can acceptit? ”

61 Jesus, knowing in Himselfthat His disciples were complaining about this, asked them,“Does this offend you?

62 Then what if you were to observe the Son of Manascendingto where He was before?

63 The Spiritis the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

64 But there are some among you who don’t believe.”(For Jesus knew from the beginningthose who would notbelieve and the one who would betrayHim.)

65 He said,“This is why I told you that no one can come to Meunless it is granted to him by the Father.”

66 From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

67 Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve,“You don’t want to go away too, do you? ”

68 Simon Peteranswered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

69 We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God! ”

70 Jesus replied to them,“Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve?Yet one of you is the Devil! ”

71 He was referring to Judas,Simon Iscariot’s son,one of the Twelve, because he was going to betrayHim.

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The Unbelief of Jesus’ Brothers

1 After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee,since He did not want to travel in Judeabecause the Jewswere trying to kill Him.

2 The Jewish Festival of Tabernacleswas near,

3 so His brotherssaid to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your worksthat You are doing.

4 For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

5 (For not even His brothers believed in Him.)

6 Jesus told them,“My timehas not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

7 The world cannot hateyou, but it does hate Me because I testify about it — that its deeds are evil.

8 Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet,because My time has not yet fully come.”

9 After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.

Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles

10 After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

11 The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He? ”

12 And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a goodman.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceivingthe people.”

13 Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

14 When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complexand began to teach.

15 Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures,since He hasn’t been trained? ”

16 Jesus answered them,“My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

17 If anyone wants to do His will,he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

18 The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory.But He who seeks the gloryof the One who sent Him is true,and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

19 Didn’t Mosesgive you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law!Why do you want to kill Me? ”

20 “You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You? ”

21 “I did one work,and you are all amazed,”Jesus answered.

22 “Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision— not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers— and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbathso that the law of Moseswon’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

24 Stop judgingaccording to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

The Identity of the Messiah

25 Some of the people of Jerusalemwere saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

26 Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authoritiesknow He is the Messiah?

27 But we know where this man is from.When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

28 As He was teaching in the temple complex,Jesus cried out,“You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Meis true. You don’t know Him;

29 I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

30 Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hourhad not yet come.

31 However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done,will He? ”

32 The Phariseesheard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priestsand the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

33 Then Jesus said,“I am only with you for a short time.Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

35 Then the Jewssaid to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersionamong the Greeksand teach the Greeks, does He?

36 What is this remark He made:‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’? ”

The Promise of the Spirit

37 On the last and most important day of the festival,Jesus stood up and cried out,“If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Meand drink!

38 The one who believes in Me,as the Scripturehas said,will have streams of living waterflowfrom deep within him.”

39 He said this about the Spirit.Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit,for the Spirithad not yet been receivedbecause Jesus had not yet been glorified.

The People Are Divided over Jesus

40 When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet! ”

41 Others said, “This is the Messiah! ” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

42 Doesn’t the Scripturesay that the Messiah comes from David’soffspringand from the town of Bethlehem,where David once lived? ”

43 So a divisionoccurred among the crowd because of Him.

44 Some of them wanted to seize Him,but no one laid hands on Him.

Debate over Jesus’ Claims

45 Then the temple policecame to the chief priestsand Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him? ”

46 The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this! ”

47 Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooledtoo?

48 Have any of the rulersor Pharisees believed in Him?

49 But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed! ”

50 Nicodemus— the one who came to Him previously, being one of them — said to them,

51 “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”

52 “You aren’t from Galileetoo, are you? ” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

53 So each one went to his house.

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1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

An Adulteress Forgiven

2 At dawn He went to the temple complexagain, and all the people were coming to Him.He sat downand began to teach them.

3 Then the scribes and the Phariseesbrought a woman caught in adultery,making her stand in the center.

4 “Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

5 In the law Mosescommanded us to stone such women.So what do You say? ”

6 They asked this to trap Him,in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

7 When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them,“The one without sinamong youshould be the first to throw a stone at her.”

8 Then He stooped down again and continued writing on the ground.

9 When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was left, with the woman in the center.

10 When Jesus stood up, He said to her,“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? ”

11 “No one, Lord,”she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,”said Jesus.“Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”

The Light of the World

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again:“I amthe lightof the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

13 So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

14 “Even if I testify about Myself,”Jesus replied,“My testimony is valid,because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

15 You judgeby human standards.I judge no one.

16 And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judgetogether.

17 Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

18 I am the One who testifiesabout Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

19 Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father? ”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,”Jesus answered.“If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

20 He spoke these words by the treasury,while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hourhad not come.

Jesus Predicts His Departure

21 Then He said to them again,“I’m going away;you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin.Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

22 So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says,‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’? ”

23 “You are from below,”He told them,“I am from above.You are of this world;I am not of this world.

24 Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He,you will die in your sins.”

25 “Who are You? ” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,”Jesus told them.

26 “I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Meis true, and what I have heard from Him — these things I tell the world.”

27 They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

28 So Jesus said to them,“When you lift up the Son of Man,then you will know that I amHe, and that I do nothing on My own.But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

29 The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone,because I always do what pleases Him.”

Truth and Freedom

30 As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.

31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him,“If you continue in My word,you really are My disciples.

32 You will know the truth,and the truth will set you free.”

33 “We are descendantsof Abraham,”they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say,‘You will become free’? ”

34 Jesus responded,“I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

35 A slave does not remain in the household forever,but a son does remain forever.

36 Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

37 I know you are descendantsof Abraham,but you are trying to kill Me because My wordis not welcome among you.

38 I speak what I have seenin the presence of the Father;therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

39 “Our father is Abraham! ” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,”Jesus told them,“you would do what Abraham did.

40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truththat I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

41 You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t bornof sexual immorality,”they said. “We have one Father — God.”

42 Jesus said to them,“If God were your Father, you would love Me,because I came from Godand I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

43 Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen toMy word.

44 You are of your father the Devil,and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murdererfrom the beginningand has not stood in the truth,because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,because he is a liar and the father of liars.

45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

46 Who among you can convict Me of sin?If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

47 The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

Jesus and Abraham

48 The Jews responded to Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You’re a Samaritanand have a demon? ”

49 “I do not have a demon,”Jesus answered.“On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

50 I do not seek My glory;the One who seeks it also judges.

51 I assure you: If anyone keeps My word,he will never see death — ever! ”

52 Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say,‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death — ever! ’

53 Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? Even the prophets died. Who do You pretend to be? ”

54 “If I glorify Myself,”Jesus answered,“My glory is nothing. My Father — you say about Him, ‘He is our God’ — He is the One who glorifies Me.

55 You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him,I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him,and I keep His word.

56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day; he saw itand rejoiced.”

57 The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham? ”

58 Jesus said to them,“I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

59 At that, they picked up stonesto throw at Him.But Jesus was hiddenand went out of the temple complex.

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The Sixth Sign: Healing a Man Born Blind

1 As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

2 His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi,who sinned, this manor his parents,that he was born blind? ”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,”Jesus answered.“This came about so that God’s worksmight be displayed in him.

4 Wemust do the worksof Him who sent Mewhile it is day.Night is coming when no one can work.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mudfrom the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

7 “Go,”He told him,“wash in the pool of Siloam”(which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging? ”

9 Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one! ”

10 Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened? ”

11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me,‘Go to Siloamand wash.’So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

12 “Where is He? ” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

The Healed Man’s Testimony

13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

14 The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

15 So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God,for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath! ” But others were saying, “How can a sinful manperform such signs? ” And there was a divisionamong them.

17 Again they asked the blind man,“What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes? ”

“He’s a prophet,”he said.

18 The Jews did not believe this about him — that he was blind and received sight — until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

19 They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see? ”

20 “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

21 “But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

22 His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah,he would be banned from the synagogue.

23 This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

24 So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give gloryto God.We know that this man is a sinner! ”

25 He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see! ”

26 Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes? ”

27 “I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you? ”

28 They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’disciples.

29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man — we don’t know where He’s from! ”

30 “This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will,He listens to him.

32 Throughout historyno one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.

33 If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

34 “You were born entirely in sin,”they replied, “and are you trying to teach us? ” Then they threw him out.

The Blind Man’s Sight and the Pharisees’ Blindness

35 When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked,“Do you believe in the Son of Man? ”

36 “Who is He, Sir,that I may believe in Him? ” he asked.

37 Jesus answered,“You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”

38 “I believe, Lord! ” he said, and he worshiped Him.

39 Jesus said,“I came into this worldfor judgment,in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we? ”

41 “If you were blind,”Jesus told them,“you wouldn’t have sin.But now that you say, ‘We see’ — your sin remains.

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The Ideal Shepherd

1 “I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherdof the sheep.

3 The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4 When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

5 They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

6 Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understandwhat He was telling them.

The Good Shepherd

7 So Jesus said again,“I assure you: I amthe door of the sheep.

8 All who came before Meare thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

10 A thief comes only to stealand to kill and to destroy.I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

11 “I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

12 The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves themand runs away when he sees a wolfcoming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

13 This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

14 “I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,

15 as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father.I lay down My lifefor the sheep.

16 But I have other sheepthat are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

17 This is why the Father loves Me,because I am laying down My lifeso I may take it up again.

18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

19 Again a divisiontook place among the Jews because of these words.

20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demonand He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him? ”

21 Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? ”

Jesus at the Festival of Dedication

22 Then the Festival of Dedicationtook place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

23 Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon’s Colonnade.

24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense?If You are the Messiah,tell us plainly.”

25 “I did tell you and you don’t believe,”Jesus answered them.“The worksthat I do in My Father’s name testify about Me.

26 But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.

27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.

28 I give them eternal life,and they will never perish— ever! No one will snatchthem out of My hand.

29 My Father,who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

30 The Father and I are one.”

Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus

31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

32 Jesus replied,“I have shown you many good worksfrom the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for? ”

33 “We aren’t stoningYou for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You — being a man — make Yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them,“Isn’t it written in your scripture,I said, you are gods?

35 If He called those whom the wordof God came to ‘gods’ — and the Scripturecannot be broken —

36 do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

37 If I am not doing My Father’s works,don’t believe Me.

38 But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understandthat the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

39 Then they were trying again to seize Him,yet He eluded their grasp.

Many beyond the Jordan Believe in Jesus

40 So He departed again across the Jordanto the place where Johnhad been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

41 Many came to Himand said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

42 And many believed in Him there.

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