In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and without Him came into being, not one thing. In Him is life, and life is the light of men. The light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
There came John, sent from God. He came for a testimony of the light that all through Him might believe. He was not the light but came that he might testify of the light. The true light, which, coming into the world, gives light to every man.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own country, and His own people received Him not, but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those that believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.
The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Created of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John testified of Him and cried, “This was He of whom I said, He that comes after me has been advanced before me because He was before me.”
Of His fullness have we all received, and grace for grace. The law was given through Moses, the grace and the truth came through Jesus the Anointed One. No one has seen God at any time. The only created Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known.
The testimony of John is this: When the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and said, “I am not the Anointed One.”
They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.”
They asked him, “Are you a prophet?” He answered, “No.”
They then said to him, “Who are you? That we may give an answer to those that sent us, what say you of yourself?” He replied, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.”
Some that had been sent from the Pharisees asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Anointed One, Elijah or the prophet?” John said, “I baptize in water, in the midst of you there stands one that you know not, He that comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to free.” These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world. This is He of whom I said after me comes a man who has advanced before me because He was before me. I knew Him not, but that He might be manifested to Israel, have I come baptizing in water.”
John said, “I saw the Spirit descending, like a dove, from heaven upon Him. I knew Him not, but He that sent me to baptize in water said to me: ‘On whom you will see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him, this is He that baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen, and I have testified that this is the Son of God.”
On the next day, again, John and two of his disciples stood looking at Jesus as He walked. John said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
The two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi, where do you stay?”
He said, “Come and see.” They saw where He stayed, and continued with Him that day, it was about the tenth hour.
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, followed Him, and he found his brother Simon and said, “We have found the Messiah.”
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Three days later, a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and His disciples were called to the marriage.
The wine of the marriage feast had failed. The mother of Jesus said to Him, “There is no wine.” Jesus said, “Woman, what have I to do with you? My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the waiters, “Whatever He says to you, do.”
According to the purification laws, there were six water vessels containing two or three baths each. Jesus said, “Fill the water vessels.” They filled them to the brim. He said, “Draw out and carry to the master of the feast.”
When the master of the feast tasted the water that had been made wine, he called the bridegroom and said to him, “Every man at first sets out the good wine. When they have become drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now.”
This beginning of signs that Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, manifest His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. After this, He went to Capernaum, He, His mother, brothers, and disciples remained there not many days.
The Passover was near, and Jesus went to Jerusalem. In the temple were money changers and those who sold oxen, sheep and doves. Making a scourge of cords, He drove out the sheep and oxen from the temple, poured out the money and overturned the tables of those that sold doves, He said, “Take these things. Make not My Father's house a house of merchandise.”The disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”
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There was a man of the Pharisees, his name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a Teacher. No one can do these signs that you do, unless God be with Him.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Wonder not that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
“The wind blows where it pleases, and the sound of it you hear, but you know not where it comes from and where it goes, so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus said, “How can these things take place?” Jesus said, “Are you the teacher of Israel and know not these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, that which we know we speak, and that which we have seen we testify, and our testimony you receive not. If I have told you earthly things and you believe not, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
“No one has ascended into heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man, who is in heaven.
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up. That everyone that believes in him may have eternal life.
“God so loved the world, that he gave His only created Son, that whoever believes in him might not perish, but have life eternal.
“God sent not the Son into the world to condemn it, but that the world might be saved through him. He that believes in him is not condemned, he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the created Son of God. The condemnation is this, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light. Their works were evil.
“Everyone that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, unless his works may be reproved, but he that does the truth comes to the light that his works may be made manifest that they are right in God.”
After this, Jesus and His disciples went to Judea, and there He stayed with them and they baptized, but John also was baptizing in Enon near Salem. John had not yet been cast into prison.
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When Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that He was making and baptizing more disciples than John, though Jesus Himself baptized, not, His disciples baptized instead, He left Judea and went away again into Galilee, but He must go through Samaria.
It was about the sixth hour when He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph, a well. He was weary from the journey, so He sat at the well, and His disciples went to the city to buy food.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” The woman said, “How do you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, I am a Samaritan woman?” Jesus said, “If you have known the gift of God, and who he is that says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and it is deep, where have you got this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, his sons, and cattle?” Jesus answered her, “Everyone that drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever will drink of the water that I give will never thirst, but the water that I give will become in him a fountain of water springing up to life eternal.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw.” He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”
The woman said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said, “Well said, ‘I have no husband.’ You have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have spoken truly.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain. You say that in Jerusalem is the place where we ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that the hour comes when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship, you know not what. We worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews, but the hour comes, and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father seeks such to worship Him. God is spirit. They that worship must worship in spirit and truth.”
The woman said, “I know that the Anointed One comes; when He has come, He will tell us all things.” Jesus said, “I am he.”
His disciples came and wondered why He talked with her. The woman left her water pot and went into the city and said to the men, “Come, see a man that has told me all things that I have done. Is this the Anointed One?” Many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified that He told her all things that she had done.
After she had left, His disciples begged Him, “Rabbi, eat.” He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know not of.”
Then said the disciples one to another, “Has anyone brought Him food?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him that sent me and finish His work. Say you not that there are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are white for the harvest.
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Jesus went to Jerusalem after the feast of the Jews. There is a pool at the sheep gate, called Bethesda in Hebrew, having five porches. In this lay a crowd of sick, blind, handicap, and withered peoples.
There was a man there that had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus saw him lying and, knowing that he had already been sick for a long time, said to him, “Will you be restored to health?” The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man that when the water is stirred, he may put me into the pool, but while I am coming, another goes down before me.” Jesus said, “Rise, take up your bed, and walk.” The man was restored to health, took up his bed and walked.
It was the Sabbath and the Jews then said to him that had been cured, “It is a Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.” He answered them, “He that made me well said to me: ‘Take up your bed and walk.’” They asked him, “Who is the man that said to you: ‘Take up and walk?’”
The sick man didn’t know who Jesus was. Jesus had withdrawn as a crowd was in the place. After this, Jesus found him in the temple. He said to him, “You have been restored to health. Sin no more unless something worse befalls you.” The man went away and told the Jews that Jesus had made him well.
For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus because He did these things on the Sabbath, but He answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work.” The Jews sought the more to kill Him because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do. Whatever He does, the Son does it in like manner. The Father loves the Son and shows him all things that He Himself does. Greater works than these will He show him, that you may wonder. As the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.
“Neither does the Father judge, but has given all judicial authority to the Son, that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you that he that hears my word and believes in Him that sent me has life eternal and comes not into condemnation but has passed out of death into life.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, that the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear will live. As the Father has life in Himself, so has He given to the Son also to have life in himself. He has given him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of man.
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