John 3-7

English Standard Version

You Must Be Born Again

3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named ^(A)Nicodemus, ^(B)a ruler of the Jews. ²This man came to Jesus^[a] ^(C)by night and said to him, ^(D)“Rabbi, ^(E)we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do ^(F)unless God is with him.” ³Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is ^(G)born ^(H)again^[b] he cannot ^(I)see the kingdom of God.” ⁴Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” ⁵Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born ^(J)of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶^(K)That which is born of the flesh is ^(L)flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.^[c] ⁷^(M)Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You^[d] must be born ^(N)again.’ ⁸^(O)The wind^[e] blows ^(P)where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus said to him, ^(Q)“How can these things be?” ¹⁰Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel ^(R)and yet you do not understand these things? ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(S)we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but ^(T)you^[f] do not receive our testimony. ¹²If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³^(U)No one has ^(V)ascended into heaven except ^(W)he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.^[g] ¹⁴And ^(X)as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man ^(Y)be lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes ^(Z)in him ^(AA)may have eternal life.^[h]

For God So Loved the World

¹⁶“For ^(AB)God so loved ^(AC)the world,^[i] ^(AD)that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not ^(AE)perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For ^(AF)God did not send his Son into the world ^(AG)to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸^(AH)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not ^(AI)believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹^(AJ)And this is the judgment: ^(AK)the light has come into the world, and ^(AL)people loved the darkness rather than the light because ^(AM)their works were evil. ²⁰^(AN)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^(AO)lest his works should be exposed. ²¹But whoever ^(AP)does what is true ^(AQ)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John the Baptist Exalts Christ

²²After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and ^(AR)was baptizing. ²³John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized ²⁴(for ^(AS)John had not yet been put in prison).

²⁵Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over ^(AT)purification. ²⁶And they came to John and said to him, ^(AU)“Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, ^(AV)to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and ^(AW)all are going to him.” ²⁷John answered, ^(AX)“A person cannot receive even one thing ^(AY)unless it is given him ^(AZ)from heaven. ²⁸You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ^(BA)‘I am not the Christ, but ^(BB)I have been sent before him.’ ²⁹^(BC)The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. ^(BD)The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, ^(BE)rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. ³⁰^(BF)He must increase, but I must decrease.”^[j]

³¹^(BG)He who comes from above ^(BH)is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and ^(BI)speaks in an earthly way. ^(BJ)He who comes from heaven ^(BK)is above all. ³²^(BL)He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, ^(BM)yet no one receives his testimony. ³³Whoever receives his testimony ^(BN)sets his seal to this, ^(BO)that God is true. ³⁴For he whom ^(BP)God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit ^(BQ)without measure. ³⁵^(BR)The Father loves the Son and ^(BS)has given all things into his hand. ³⁶^(BT)Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; ^(BU)whoever does not obey the Son shall not ^(BV)see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^(BW)baptizing more disciples than John ²(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), ³he left Judea and departed ^(BX)again for Galilee. ⁴^(BY)And he had to pass through Samaria. ⁵So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(BZ)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, ^(CA)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.^[k]

⁷A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(CB)“Give me a drink.” ⁸(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (^(CC)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you ^(CD)living water.” ¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹²^(CE)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(CF)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but ^(CG)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(CH)will never be thirsty again.^[l] The water that I will give him will become ^(CI)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(CJ)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, ^(CK)call your husband, and come here.” ¹⁷The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” ¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that ^(CL)you are ^(CM)a prophet. ²⁰^(CN)Our fathers worshiped on ^(CO)this mountain, but you say that ^(CP)in Jerusalem is ^(CQ)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹Jesus said to her, ^(CR)“Woman, believe me, ^(CS)the hour is coming when ^(CT)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²²^(CU)You worship what you do not know; ^(CV)we worship what we know, for ^(CW)salvation is ^(CX)from the Jews. ²³But ^(CY)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(CZ)in spirit and ^(DA)truth, for the Father ^(DB)is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that ^(DC)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(DD)he will tell us all things.” ²⁶Jesus said to her, ^(DE)“I who speak to you am he.”

²⁷Just then ^(DF)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹“Come, see a man ^(DG)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, ^(DH)“Rabbi, eat.” ³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³So the disciples said to one another, ^(DI)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ³⁴Jesus said to them, ^(DJ)“My food is ^(DK)to do the will of him who sent me and ^(DL)to accomplish his work. ³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that ^(DM)the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that ^(DN)sower and ^(DO)reaper ^(DP)may rejoice together. ³⁷For here the saying holds true, ^(DQ)‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap ^(DR)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, ^(DS)and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many Samaritans ^(DT)from that town believed in him ^(DU)because of ^(DV)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed ^(DW)because of his word. ⁴²They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, ^(DX)and we know that this is indeed ^(DY)the Savior ^(DZ)of the world.”

⁴³After ^(EA)the two days he departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴(For Jesus himself had testified ^(EB)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) ⁴⁵So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, ^(EC)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For ^(ED)they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

⁴⁶So he came again to ^(EE)Cana in Galilee, ^(EF)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. ⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus ^(EG)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, ^(EH)“Unless you^[m] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” ⁴⁹The official said to him, “Sir, come down ^(EI)before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. ⁵¹As he was going down, his servants^[n] met him and told him that his son was recovering. ⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour^[o] the fever left him.” ⁵³The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, ^(EJ)and all his household. ⁵⁴^(EK)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

5 After this there was a ^(EL)feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(EM)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[p] called Bethesda,^[q] which has five roofed colonnades. ³In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and ^(EN)paralyzed.^[r] ⁵One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸Jesus said to him, ^(EO)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ⁹^(EP)And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^(EQ)Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰So the Jews^[s] said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^(ER)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for ^(ES)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! ^(ET)Sin no more, ^(EU)that nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶And this was why the Jews ^(EV)were persecuting Jesus, ^(EW)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸This was why the Jews ^(EX)were seeking all the more to kill him, ^(EY)because not only was he ^(EZ)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^(FA)his own Father, ^(FB)making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FC)the Son ^(FD)can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father^[t] does, that the Son does likewise. ²⁰For ^(FE)the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And ^(FF)greater works than these will he show him, so that ^(FG)you may marvel. ²¹For as the Father ^(FH)raises the dead and ^(FI)gives them life, so ^(FJ)also the Son gives life ^(FK)to whom he will. ²²^(FL)For the Father judges no one, but ^(FM)has given all judgment to the Son, ²³that all may honor the Son, just as they ^(FN)honor the Father. ^(FO)Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FP)whoever hears my word and ^(FQ)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He ^(FR)does not come into judgment, but ^(FS)has passed from death to life.

²⁵“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FT)an hour is coming, and is now here, when ^(FU)the dead will hear ^(FV)the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear ^(FW)will live. ²⁶^(FX)For as the Father has life in himself, ^(FY)so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷And he ^(FZ)has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸Do not marvel at this, for ^(GA)an hour is coming when ^(GB)all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and come out, ^(GC)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

³⁰^(GD)“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and ^(GE)my judgment is just, because ^(GF)I seek not my own will ^(GG)but the will of him who sent me. ³¹^(GH)If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. ³²There is ^(GI)another who bears witness about me, and ^(GJ)I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ³³^(GK)You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴Not that ^(GL)the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵He was a burning and ^(GM)shining lamp, and ^(GN)you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶But ^(GO)the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For ^(GP)the works that the Father has given me ^(GQ)to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, ^(GR)bear witness about me that ^(GS)the Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father who sent me ^(GT)has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, ^(GU)his form you have never seen, ³⁸and ^(GV)you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. ³⁹^(GW)You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and ^(GX)it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰yet ^(GY)you refuse to come to me that you may have life. ⁴¹^(GZ)I do not receive glory from people. ⁴²But ^(HA)I know that you do not have ^(HB)the love of God within you. ⁴³I have come ^(HC)in my Father's name, and ^(HD)you do not receive me. ^(HE)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and ^(HF)do not seek the glory that comes from ^(HG)the only God? ⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, ^(HH)on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for ^(HI)he wrote of me. ⁴⁷But ^(HJ)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

6 After this ^(HK)Jesus went away to the other side of ^(HL)the Sea of Galilee, which is ^(HM)the Sea of Tiberias. ²And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. ³Jesus went up on ^(HN)the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. ⁴Now ^(HO)the Passover, the ^(HP)feast of the Jews, was at hand. ⁵^(HQ)Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to ^(HR)Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ⁶He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. ⁷^(HS)Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii^[u] worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” ⁸One of his disciples, ^(HT)Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, ⁹“There is a boy here who has five ^(HU)barley loaves and two fish, but ^(HV)what are they for so many?” ¹⁰Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” ^(HW)Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. ¹¹Jesus then took the loaves, and ^(HX)when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹²And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” ¹³So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. ¹⁴When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, ^(HY)“This is indeed ^(HZ)the Prophet ^(IA)who is to come into the world!”

¹⁵^(IB)Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus ^(IC)withdrew again to ^(ID)the mountain by himself.

Jesus Walks on Water

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. ¹⁸The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. ¹⁹When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[v] they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. ²⁰^(IE)But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” ²¹Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

I Am the Bread of Life

²²On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only ^(IF)one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. ²³Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord ^(IG)had given thanks. ²⁴^(IH)So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and ^(II)went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ^(IJ)“Rabbi, when did you come here?” ²⁶Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(IK)you are seeking me, not because you saw ^(IL)signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. ²⁷^(IM)Do not work for the food that perishes, but for ^(IN)the food that endures to eternal life, which ^(IO)the Son of Man will give to you. For on ^(IP)him God the Father has ^(IQ)set his seal.” ²⁸Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(IR)the works of God?” ²⁹Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(IS)that you believe in him whom ^(IT)he has sent.” ³⁰So they said to him, ^(IU)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ³¹^(IV)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(IW)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³²Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is ^(IX)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴They said to him, ^(IY)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵Jesus said to them, ^(IZ)“I am the bread of life; ^(JA)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ³⁷^(JB)All that ^(JC)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(JD)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸For ^(JE)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(JF)my own will but ^(JG)the will of him ^(JH)who sent me. ³⁹And ^(JI)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(JJ)that I should lose nothing of ^(JK)all that he has given me, but ^(JL)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(JM)looks on the Son and ^(JN)believes in him ^(JO)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(JP)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, ^(JQ)“Is not this Jesus, ^(JR)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(JS)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(JT)draws him. And ^(JU)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, ^(JV)‘And they will all be ^(JW)taught by God.’ ^(JX)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ⁴⁶^(JY)not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(JZ)he who is from God; he ^(KA)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(KB)whoever believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸^(KC)I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹^(KD)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(KE)they died. ⁵⁰^(KF)This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(KG)and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ^(KH)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^(KI)for the life of the world is ^(KJ)my flesh.”

⁵²The Jews then ^(KK)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(KL)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^(KM)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(KN)have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(KO)has eternal life, and ^(KP)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(KQ)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As ^(KR)the living Father ^(KS)sent me, and ^(KT)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ⁵⁸^(KU)This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[w] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹Jesus^[x] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^(KV)at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

⁶⁰^(KW)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹But Jesus, ^(KX)knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? ⁶²Then what if you were to see ^(KY)the Son of Man ^(KZ)ascending to ^(LA)where he was before? ⁶³^(LB)It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(LC)the flesh is no help at all. ^(LD)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴But ^(LE)there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus ^(LF)knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and ^(LG)who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵And he said, “This is why I told you ^(LH)that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

⁶⁶^(LI)After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷So Jesus said to ^(LJ)the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ^(LK)the words of eternal life, ⁶⁹and ^(LL)we have believed, and have come to know, that ^(LM)you are ^(LN)the Holy One of God.” ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, ^(LO)“Did I not choose you, ^(LP)the twelve? And yet one of you is ^(LQ)a devil.” ⁷¹He spoke of Judas ^(LR)the son of Simon Iscariot, for ^(LS)he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(LT)the Jews^[y] were seeking to kill him. ²Now ^(LU)the Jews' Feast of ^(LV)Booths was at hand. ³^(LW)So his brothers^[z] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. ⁴For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, ^(LX)show yourself to the world.” ⁵^(LY)For not even ^(LZ)his brothers believed in him. ⁶Jesus said to them, ^(MA)“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but ^(MB)it hates me because I testify about it that ^(MC)its works are evil. ⁸You go up to the feast. I am not^[aa] going up to this feast, for ^(MD)my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰But after ^(ME)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ¹¹^(MF)The Jews ^(MG)were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” ¹²And there was much ^(MH)muttering about him among the people. ^(MI)While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, ^(MJ)he is leading the people astray.” ¹³Yet ^(MK)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(ML)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵The Jews therefore ^(MM)marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[ab] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶So Jesus answered them, ^(MN)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(MO)who sent me. ¹⁷^(MP)If anyone's will is to do God's^[ac] will, ^(MQ)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(MR)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸The one who speaks on his own authority ^(MS)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ¹⁹^(MT)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(MU)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰The crowd answered, ^(MV)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹Jesus answered them, “I did ^(MW)one work, and you all marvel at it. ²²^(MX)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(MY)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(MZ)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ²⁴^(NA)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(NB)they seek to kill? ²⁶And here he is, ^(NC)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(ND)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷But ^(NE)we know ^(NF)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(NG)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸So Jesus proclaimed, ^(NH)as he taught in the temple, ^(NI)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(NJ)I have not come of my own accord. ^(NK)He who sent me is true, ^(NL)and him you do not know. ²⁹^(NM)I know him, for I come ^(NN)from him, and ^(NO)he sent me.” ³⁰^(NP)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(NQ)no one laid a hand on him, ^(NR)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹Yet ^(NS)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(NT)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(NU)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(NV)officers to arrest him. ³³Jesus then said, ^(NW)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(NX)I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴^(NY)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(NZ)Does he intend to go to ^(OA)the Dispersion among ^(OB)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ^(OC)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

³⁷^(OD)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(OE)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(OF)come to me and drink. ³⁸Whoever believes in me, ^(OG)as^[ad] the Scripture has said, ^(OH)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(OI)living water.’” ³⁹Now ^(OJ)this he said about the Spirit, ^(OK)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(OL)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(OM)given, ^(ON)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰When they heard these words, ^(OO)some of the people said, “This really is ^(OP)the Prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is ^(OQ)the Christ.” But some said, ^(OR)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(OS)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(OT)from Bethlehem, the village ^(OU)where David was?” ⁴³So there was ^(OV)a division among the people over him.

Footnotes

John 3:2 Greek him
John 3:3 Or from above; the Greek is purposely ambiguous and can mean both again and from above; also verse 7
John 3:6 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
John 3:7 The Greek for you is plural here
John 3:8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
John 3:11 The Greek for you is plural here; also four times in verse 12
John 3:13 Some manuscripts add who is in heaven
John 3:15 Some interpreters hold that the quotation ends at verse 15
John 3:16 Or For this is how God loved the world
John 3:30 Some interpreters hold that the quotation continues through verse 36
John 4:6 That is, about noon
John 4:14 Greek forever
John 4:48 The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse
John 4:51 Or bondservants
John 4:52 That is, at 1 p.m.
John 5:2 Or Hebrew
John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethsaida
John 5:3 Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water; ⁴for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had
John 5:10 The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed Jesus in that time; also verses 15, 16, 18
John 5:19 Greek he
John 6:7 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer
John 6:19 Greek twenty-five or thirty stadia; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
John 6:58 Greek lacks the bread
John 6:59 Greek He
John 7:1 Or Judeans; Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time
John 7:3 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10
John 7:8 Some manuscripts add yet
John 7:15 Or this man knows his letters
John 7:17 Greek his
John 7:38 Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As

John 3-7

New International Version

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus^(A) who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.^(B) ²He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi,^(C) we know^(D) that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs^(E) you are doing if God were not with him.”^(F)

³Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.^[a]”^(G)

⁴“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

⁵Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.^(H) ⁶Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[b] gives birth to spirit.^(I) ⁷You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You^[c] must be born again.’ ⁸The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”^[d]^(J)

⁹“How can this be?”^(K) Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰“You are Israel’s teacher,”^(L) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,^(M) and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.^(N) ¹²I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³No one has ever gone into heaven^(O) except the one who came from heaven^(P)—the Son of Man.^[e]^(Q) ¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(R) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[f]^(S) ¹⁵that everyone who believes^(T) may have eternal life in him.”^[g]^(U)

¹⁶For God so loved^(V) the world that he gave^(W) his one and only Son,^(X) that whoever believes^(Y) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^(Z) ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world^(AA) to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.^(AB) ¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not condemned,^(AC) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.^(AD) ¹⁹This is the verdict: Light^(AE) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.^(AF) ²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.^(AG) ²¹But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John Testifies Again About Jesus

²²After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.^(AH) ²³Now John^(AI) also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. ²⁴(This was before John was put in prison.)^(AJ) ²⁵An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.^(AK) ²⁶They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi,^(AL) that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified^(AM) about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”

²⁷To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. ²⁸You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’^(AN) ²⁹The bride belongs to the bridegroom.^(AO) The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.^(AP) ³⁰He must become greater; I must become less.”^[h]

³¹The one who comes from above^(AQ) is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth.^(AR) The one who comes from heaven is above all. ³²He testifies to what he has seen and heard,^(AS) but no one accepts his testimony.^(AT) ³³Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. ³⁴For the one whom God has sent^(AU) speaks the words of God, for God^[i] gives the Spirit^(AV) without limit. ³⁵The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.^(AW) ³⁶Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life,^(AX) but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John^(AY)— ²although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³So he left Judea^(AZ) and went back once more to Galilee.

⁴Now he had to go through Samaria.^(BA) ⁵So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.^(BB) ⁶Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

⁷When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”^(BC) ⁸(His disciples had gone into the town^(BD) to buy food.)

⁹The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan^(BE) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.^[j])

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”^(BF)

¹¹“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well^(BG) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.^(BH) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^(BI) welling up to eternal life.”^(BJ)

¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty^(BK) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

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

¹⁷“I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.^(BL) ²⁰Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,^(BM) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”^(BN)

²¹“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming^(BO) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^(BP) ²²You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^(BQ) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^(BR) ²³Yet a time is coming and has now come^(BS) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit^(BT) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴God is spirit,^(BU) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

²⁵The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)^(BV) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

²⁶Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”^(BW)

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

²⁷Just then his disciples returned^(BX) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.^(BY) Could this be the Messiah?”^(BZ) ³⁰They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

³¹Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,^(CA) eat something.”

³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat^(CB) that you know nothing about.”

³³Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

³⁴“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will^(CC) of him who sent me and to finish his work.^(CD) ³⁵Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.^(CE) ³⁶Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests^(CF) a crop for eternal life,^(CG) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’^(CH) is true. ³⁸I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹Many of the Samaritans from that town^(CI) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”^(CJ) ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. ⁴¹And because of his words many more became believers.

⁴²They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”^(CK)

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

⁴³After the two days^(CL) he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)^(CM) ⁴⁵When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,^(CN) for they also had been there.

⁴⁶Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.^(CO) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,^(CP) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁸“Unless you people see signs and wonders,”^(CQ) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰“Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵²When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

⁵³Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household^(CR) believed.

⁵⁴This was the second sign^(CS) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

The Healing at the Pool

5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. ²Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate^(CT) a pool, which in Aramaic^(CU) is called Bethesda^[k] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ^[4]^[l] ⁵One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”^(CV) ⁹At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,^(CW) ¹⁰and so the Jewish leaders^(CX) said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”^(CY)

¹¹But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

¹²So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

¹³The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning^(CZ) or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵The man went away and told the Jewish leaders^(DA) that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁶So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. ¹⁷In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father^(DB) is always at his work^(DC) to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;^(DD) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.^(DE)

¹⁹Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;^(DF) he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son^(DG) and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,^(DH) so that you will be amazed. ²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,^(DI) even so the Son gives life^(DJ) to whom he is pleased to give it. ²²Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,^(DK) ²³that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.^(DL)

²⁴“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me^(DM) has eternal life^(DN) and will not be judged^(DO) but has crossed over from death to life.^(DP) ²⁵Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come^(DQ) when the dead will hear^(DR) the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life^(DS) in himself. ²⁷And he has given him authority to judge^(DT) because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming^(DU) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.^(DV) ³⁰By myself I can do nothing;^(DW) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,^(DX) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.^(DY)

Testimonies About Jesus

³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.^(DZ) ³²There is another who testifies in my favor,^(EA) and I know that his testimony about me is true.

³³“You have sent to John and he has testified^(EB) to the truth. ³⁴Not that I accept human testimony;^(EC) but I mention it that you may be saved.^(ED) ³⁵John was a lamp that burned and gave light,^(EE) and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

³⁶“I have testimony weightier than that of John.^(EF) For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing^(EG)—testify that the Father has sent me.^(EH) ³⁷And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.^(EI) You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,^(EJ) ³⁸nor does his word dwell in you,^(EK) for you do not believe^(EL) the one he sent.^(EM) ³⁹You study^[m] the Scriptures^(EN) diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.^(EO) These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,^(EP) ⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me^(EQ) to have life.

⁴¹“I do not accept glory from human beings,^(ER) ⁴²but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. ⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God^[n]?^(ES)

⁴⁵“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses,^(ET) on whom your hopes are set.^(EU) ⁴⁶If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.^(EV) ⁴⁷But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”^(EW)

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand^(EX)

6 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), ²and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs^(EY) he had performed by healing the sick. ³Then Jesus went up on a mountainside^(EZ) and sat down with his disciples. ⁴The Jewish Passover Festival^(FA) was near.

⁵When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,^(FB) “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” ⁶He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

⁷Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages^[o] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

⁸Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,^(FC) spoke up, ⁹“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”^(FD)

¹⁰Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). ¹¹Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks,^(FE) and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

¹²When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” ¹³So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴After the people saw the sign^(FF) Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”^(FG) ¹⁵Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king^(FH) by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.^(FI)

Jesus Walks on the Water^(FJ)

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁷where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. ¹⁸A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. ¹⁹When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[p] they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water;^(FK) and they were frightened. ²⁰But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.”^(FL) ²¹Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

²²The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake^(FM) realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.^(FN) ²³Then some boats from Tiberias^(FO) landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.^(FP) ²⁴Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

Jesus the Bread of Life

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi,^(FQ) when did you get here?”

²⁶Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me,^(FR) not because you saw the signs^(FS) I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures^(FT) to eternal life,^(FU) which the Son of Man^(FV) will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal^(FW) of approval.”

²⁸Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

²⁹Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe^(FX) in the one he has sent.”^(FY)

³⁰So they asked him, “What sign^(FZ) then will you give that we may see it and believe you?^(GA) What will you do? ³¹Our ancestors ate the manna^(GB) in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[q]”^(GC)

³²Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven^(GD) and gives life to the world.”

³⁴“Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”^(GE)

³⁵Then Jesus declared, “I am^(GF) the bread of life.^(GG) Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes^(GH) in me will never be thirsty.^(GI) ³⁶But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷All those the Father gives me^(GJ) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸For I have come down from heaven^(GK) not to do my will but to do the will^(GL) of him who sent me.^(GM) ³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(GN) but raise them up at the last day.^(GO) ⁴⁰For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(GP) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(GQ) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^(GR) whose father and mother we know?^(GS) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(GT)

⁴³“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(GU) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[r]^(GV) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(GW) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^(GX) ⁴⁸I am the bread of life.^(GY) ⁴⁹Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^(GZ) ⁵⁰But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(HA) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread^(HB) that came down from heaven.^(HC) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(HD)

⁵²Then the Jews^(HE) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(HF) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^(HG) of the Son of Man^(HH) and drink his blood,^(HI) you have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^(HJ) ⁵⁵For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^(HK) ⁵⁷Just as the living Father sent me^(HL) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^(HM) ⁵⁹He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

⁶⁰On hearing it, many of his disciples^(HN) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”^(HO)

⁶¹Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?^(HP) ⁶²Then what if you see the Son of Man^(HQ) ascend to where he was before!^(HR) ⁶³The Spirit gives life;^(HS) the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit^[s] and life. ⁶⁴Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known^(HT) from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.^(HU) ⁶⁵He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”^(HV)

⁶⁶From this time many of his disciples^(HW) turned back and no longer followed him.

⁶⁷“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.^(HX)

⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him,^(HY) “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.^(HZ) ⁶⁹We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”^(IA)

⁷⁰Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you,^(IB) the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”^(IC) ⁷¹(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot,^(ID) who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)^(IE)

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want^[t] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders^(IF) there were looking for a way to kill him.^(IG) ²But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles^(IH) was near, ³Jesus’ brothers^(II) said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. ⁴No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵For even his own brothers did not believe in him.^(IJ)

⁶Therefore Jesus told them, “My time^(IK) is not yet here; for you any time will do. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(IL) because I testify that its works are evil.^(IM) ⁸You go to the festival. I am not^[u] going up to this festival, because my time^(IN) has not yet fully come.” ⁹After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. ¹¹Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus^(IO) and asking, “Where is he?”

¹²Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”

Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.”^(IP) ¹³But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.^(IQ)

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

¹⁴Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.^(IR) ¹⁵The Jews^(IS) there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning^(IT) without having been taught?”^(IU)

¹⁶Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.^(IV) ¹⁷Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out^(IW) whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. ¹⁸Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory,^(IX) but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. ¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law?^(IY) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”^(IZ)

²⁰“You are demon-possessed,”^(JA) the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

²¹Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle,^(JB) and you are all amazed. ²²Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision^(JC) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),^(JD) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. ²³Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? ²⁴Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”^(JE)

Division Over Who Jesus Is

²⁵At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?^(JF) ²⁶Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities^(JG) really concluded that he is the Messiah?^(JH) ²⁷But we know where this man is from;^(JI) when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”

²⁸Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts,^(JJ) cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from.^(JK) I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true.^(JL) You do not know him, ²⁹but I know him^(JM) because I am from him and he sent me.”^(JN)

³⁰At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him,^(JO) because his hour had not yet come.^(JP) ³¹Still, many in the crowd believed in him.^(JQ) They said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs^(JR) than this man?”

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.

³³Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time,^(JS) and then I am going to the one who sent me.^(JT) ³⁴You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”^(JU)

³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered^(JV) among the Greeks,^(JW) and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”^(JX)

³⁷On the last and greatest day of the festival,^(JY) Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.^(JZ) ³⁸Whoever believes^(KA) in me, as Scripture has said,^(KB) rivers of living water^(KC) will flow from within them.”^[v]^(KD) ³⁹By this he meant the Spirit,^(KE) whom those who believed in him were later to receive.^(KF) Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.^(KG)

⁴⁰On hearing his words, some of the people said, “Surely this man is the Prophet.”^(KH)

⁴¹Others said, “He is the Messiah.”

Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?^(KI) ⁴²Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants^(KJ) and from Bethlehem,^(KK) the town where David lived?”

Footnotes

John 3:3 The Greek for again also means from above; also in verse 7.
John 3:6 Or but spirit
John 3:7 The Greek is plural.
John 3:8 The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.
John 3:13 Some manuscripts Man, who is in heaven
John 3:14 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.
John 3:15 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.
John 3:30 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 36.
John 3:34 Greek he
John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used
John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida
John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. ⁴From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
John 5:39 Or ³⁹Study
John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One
John 6:7 Greek take two hundred denarii
John 6:19 Or about 5 or 6 kilometers
John 6:31 Exodus 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Psalm 78:24,25
John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13
John 6:63 Or are Spirit; or are spirit
John 7:1 Some manuscripts not have authority
John 7:8 Some manuscripts not yet
John 7:38 Or me. And let anyone drink ³⁸who believes in me.” As Scripture has said, “Out of him (or them) will flow rivers of living water.”

John 3-7

King James Version

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

²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

⁴Nicodemus saith unto 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?

⁵Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

⁸The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

¹²If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

¹³And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

¹⁸He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²¹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

²³And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

²⁶And 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.

²⁷John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.

³³He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

³⁵The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

³⁶He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

²(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

³He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴And he must needs go through Samaria.

⁵Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

¹⁴But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

¹⁵The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

²²Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

³¹In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

³²But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

³³Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

³⁵Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

³⁷And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed because of his own word;

⁴²And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

⁴³Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

⁴⁵Then 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.

⁴⁶So 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.

⁴⁷When 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.

⁴⁸Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

⁴⁹The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

⁵⁰Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

⁵²Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

⁵³So 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.

⁵⁴This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

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

²Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴For 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.

⁵And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

⁷The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

⁸Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

⁹And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

¹⁰The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

¹¹He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

¹²Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

¹³And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

¹⁵The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

¹⁶And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

¹⁸Therefore 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.

¹⁹Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

²⁰For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

²¹For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

²²For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

²³That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

²⁵Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

²⁶For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

²⁷And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

²⁸Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

²⁹And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

³⁰I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

³²There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

³³Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

³⁴But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

³⁵He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

³⁶But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

³⁷And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

³⁸And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

⁴⁰And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

⁴¹I receive not honour from men.

⁴²But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

⁴³I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

⁴⁴How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

⁴⁶For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

⁴⁷But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

6 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

²And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

³And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

⁴And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

⁵When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

⁶And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

⁷Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

⁹There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

¹⁰And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

¹¹And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

¹²When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

¹³Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

¹⁴Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

¹⁵When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

¹⁶And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,

¹⁷And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

¹⁸And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.

¹⁹So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

²⁰But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.

²¹Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

²²The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;

²³(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)

²⁴When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

²⁵And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

²⁶Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

²⁷Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

²⁸Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

³⁰They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

³¹Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

³²Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

³³For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

³⁴Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

³⁵And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

³⁶But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.

³⁷All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

³⁸For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³⁹And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

⁴⁰And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴¹The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

⁴⁴No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

⁴⁶Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

⁴⁸I am that bread of life.

⁴⁹Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

⁵⁰This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵²The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁵³Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

⁵⁴Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

⁵⁸This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

⁵⁹These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

⁶¹When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

⁶²What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

⁶³It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

⁶⁴But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

⁶⁵And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

⁶⁶From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

⁶⁸Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

⁶⁹And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

⁷¹He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

7 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.

³His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.

⁴For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

⁵For neither did his brethren believe in him.

⁶Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

⁸Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.

⁹When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

¹²And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.

¹³Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

²⁰The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

²¹Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

²²Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

²³If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

²⁴Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁵Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

²⁶But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

²⁷Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

²⁸Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

²⁹But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?

³²The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

³³Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

³⁴Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

³⁵Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

³⁶What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?

³⁷In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

³⁸He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

⁴⁰Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

⁴³So there was a division among the people because of him.

⁴⁴And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?

⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

⁴⁷Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

⁴⁹But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

⁵¹Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

⁵²They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

⁵³And every man went unto his own house.

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John 3-7 English Standard Version

You Must Be Born Again

For God So Loved the World

John the Baptist Exalts Christ

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

Jesus Is Equal with God

The Authority of the Son

Witnesses to Jesus

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

Jesus Walks on Water

I Am the Bread of Life

The Words of Eternal Life

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

Can This Be the Christ?

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

Rivers of Living Water

Division Among the People

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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

John Testifies Again About Jesus

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

Many Samaritans Believe

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

The Healing at the Pool

The Authority of the Son

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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand(EX)

Jesus Walks on the Water(FJ)

Jesus the Bread of Life

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

Division Over Who Jesus Is

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