He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,

He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus Knows What Is in Man

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

Nicodemus 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?”

For God So Loved the World

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

But whoever does what is true 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

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.

Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

Just then 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?”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

And many more believed because of his word.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

When this man heard that Jesus 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.

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.

The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

Jesus Is Equal with God

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.

Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”

Jesus Walks on Water

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

I Am the Bread of Life

On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

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

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

The Words of Eternal Life

When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

For not even his brothers believed in him.

But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own authority 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.

So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

[[They went each to his own house,

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

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

But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”

And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

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

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

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

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

One of You Will Betray Me

After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus' side,

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’ ?”

His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!

Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

The High Priestly Prayer

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

The High Priest Questions Jesus

The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

Peter Denies Jesus Again

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.

He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.

For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

Jesus Is Buried

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea.

This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.