26114 | JHN 1:1 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
26115 | JHN 1:2 | He was in the beginning with God. |
26116 | JHN 1:3 | Everything was made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. |
26117 | JHN 1:4 | In Him was life, and that life was the light of mankind. |
26118 | JHN 1:5 | The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness hasn’t overcome it. |
26119 | JHN 1:6 | There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. |
26120 | JHN 1:7 | This man came as a witness, to testify about the light, that all through him might believe. |
26121 | JHN 1:8 | He wasn’t that light, but was sent as a witness of that light. |
26122 | JHN 1:9 | The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. |
26123 | JHN 1:10 | The Word was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world didn’t recognize Him. |
26124 | JHN 1:11 | He came to His own, and those who were His own didn’t receive Him. |
26125 | JHN 1:12 | But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in His name: |
26126 | JHN 1:13 | who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. |
26127 | JHN 1:14 | The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. |
26128 | JHN 1:15 | John testified about Him. He cried out, saying, “This was He who I told you about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’” |
26129 | JHN 1:16 | From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. |
26130 | JHN 1:17 | The Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. |
26131 | JHN 1:18 | No one has ever seen God, but God’s only born Son, who is near to the heart of His Father, has made Him known. |
26132 | JHN 1:19 | Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” |
26133 | JHN 1:20 | He confessed, and didn’t deny, but confessed, “I’m not the Christ.” |
26134 | JHN 1:21 | They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” |
26135 | JHN 1:22 | Then they asked him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” |
26136 | JHN 1:23 | John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’” |
26137 | JHN 1:24 | Now those who were sent were Pharisees. |
26138 | JHN 1:25 | They asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” |
26139 | JHN 1:26 | John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but One stands among you that you don’t know. |
26140 | JHN 1:27 | It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.” |
26141 | JHN 1:28 | This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. |
26142 | JHN 1:29 | The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Look! God’s Lamb who takes away the sin of the world! |
26143 | JHN 1:30 | This is the One I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me is preferred before me because He existed before me.’ |
26144 | JHN 1:31 | I didn’t know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.” |
26145 | JHN 1:32 | John testified, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. |
26146 | JHN 1:33 | I wouldn’t have known Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘Whoever you see the Spirit descending upon, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ |
26147 | JHN 1:34 | I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Son.” |
26148 | JHN 1:35 | The next day, John again stood with two of His disciples. |
26149 | JHN 1:36 | When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, God’s Lamb!” |
26150 | JHN 1:37 | The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. |
26151 | JHN 1:38 | Jesus turned, and seeing them following, asked them, “What are you looking for?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which, when translated, means Teacher), “Where are You staying?” |
26152 | JHN 1:39 | He told them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour. |
26153 | JHN 1:40 | Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. |
26154 | JHN 1:41 | The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother, Simon, and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, translated, the Christ). |
26155 | JHN 1:42 | Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter). |
26156 | JHN 1:43 | The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he told him, “Follow me.” |
26157 | JHN 1:44 | Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. |
26158 | JHN 1:45 | Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found Him who Moses in the Law, and also the prophets, wrote about — Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” |
26159 | JHN 1:46 | Nathanael asked Philip, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip told Nathanael, “Come and see.” |
26160 | JHN 1:47 | Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of Nathanael, “Look! An Israelite indeed, who has no deceit in him!” |
26161 | JHN 1:48 | Nathanael asked Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” |
26162 | JHN 1:49 | Nathanael answered, “Rabbi, You are God’s Son. You are the King of Israel.” |
26163 | JHN 1:50 | Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” |
26164 | JHN 1:51 | And He told him, “Most assuredly, I tell you, you will see Heaven opened, and God’s angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” |
26165 | JHN 2:1 | On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there. |
26166 | JHN 2:2 | Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. |
26167 | JHN 2:3 | When they ran out of wine, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They have no wine.” |
26168 | JHN 2:4 | Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My time has not yet come.” |
26169 | JHN 2:5 | His mother told the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” |
26170 | JHN 2:6 | Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding two to three metretes. |
26171 | JHN 2:7 | Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water,” so they filled them to the brim. |
26172 | JHN 2:8 | Then He told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, |
26173 | JHN 2:9 | and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He didn’t realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside |
26174 | JHN 2:10 | and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first, and then the cheaper wine after the guests have drunk freely, but you have saved the best till now!” |
26175 | JHN 2:11 | Jesus did this beginning of signs in Cana of Galilee. He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. |
26176 | JHN 2:12 | After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days. |
26177 | JHN 2:13 | The time for the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
26178 | JHN 2:14 | He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. |
26179 | JHN 2:15 | When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. |
26180 | JHN 2:16 | He told those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Don’t make my Father’s house a market place!” |
26181 | JHN 2:17 | Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume me.” |
26182 | JHN 2:18 | So the Jews answered and asked Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?” |
26183 | JHN 2:19 | Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” |
26184 | JHN 2:20 | Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” |
26185 | JHN 2:21 | But the temple He had spoken of was His body. |
26186 | JHN 2:22 | After He was raised from the dead, His disciples recalled what He had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. |
26187 | JHN 2:23 | Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs He was doing and believed in His name. |
26188 | JHN 2:24 | But Jesus didn’t commit Himself to them, because He knew all people, |
26189 | JHN 2:25 | and had no need for anyone to testify about people, for He knew what was in people. |
26190 | JHN 3:1 | There was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. |
26191 | JHN 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” |
26192 | JHN 3:3 | Jesus answered and told him, “Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born again, that person can’t see the kingdom of God.” |
26193 | JHN 3:4 | Nicodemus asked Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He can’t go back into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” |
26194 | JHN 3:5 | Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, that one can’t enter the Kingdom of God. |
26195 | JHN 3:6 | That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. |
26196 | JHN 3:7 | Don’t marvel that I told you, ‘You must be born again.’ |
26197 | JHN 3:8 | The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but can’t tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” |
26198 | JHN 3:9 | Nicodemus asked Him, “How can these things be?” |
26199 | JHN 3:10 | “Are you Israel’s teacher,” asked Jesus, “and yet you don’t understand these things? |
26200 | JHN 3:11 | Most assuredly, I tell you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. |
26201 | JHN 3:12 | If I have told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? |
26202 | JHN 3:13 | No one has ever gone up into Heaven except the one who came from Heaven — the Son of Man. |
26203 | JHN 3:14 | Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, |
26204 | JHN 3:15 | that everyone who believes in Him should not die, but have eternal life. |
26205 | JHN 3:16 | For God so sincerely loved the world that He gave His only born Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. |
26206 | JHN 3:17 | For God didn’t send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. |
26207 | JHN 3:18 | Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever doesn’t believe is condemned already because that person has not believed in the name of God’s only Son. |
26208 | JHN 3:19 | This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, but people sincerely loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. |
26209 | JHN 3:20 | Everyone who practices evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, for fear that their deeds will be exposed. |
26210 | JHN 3:21 | Whoever practices the truth comes to the light to show clearly that their deeds have been done with God.” |
26211 | JHN 3:22 | After this, Jesus and His disciples went out into the countryside of Judea, where He remained with them, and baptized. |
26212 | JHN 3:23 | John was also baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there, and people kept coming to be baptized. |
26213 | JHN 3:24 | John had not yet been thrown into prison. |
26214 | JHN 3:25 | There were some questions between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification. |
26215 | JHN 3:26 | They came to John and told him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, that you have testified about — look, He is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!” |
26216 | JHN 3:27 | John replied, “A man can receive nothing, unless it’s given to him from Heaven. |
26217 | JHN 3:28 | You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I’m not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’ |
26218 | JHN 3:29 | The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and rejoices when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This joy of mine is now made complete. |
26219 | JHN 3:30 | He must increase, but I must decrease. |
26220 | JHN 3:31 | “He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the Earth belongs to the Earth and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all. |
26221 | JHN 3:32 | He testifies about what He has seen and heard, but no one accepts His testimony. |
26222 | JHN 3:33 | The man who has accepted His testimony has certified that God is truthful. |
26223 | JHN 3:34 | The one that God has sent speaks God’s words, for God gives the Spirit without measure. |
26224 | JHN 3:35 | The Father sincerely loves the Son, and has given everything into His hand. |
26225 | JHN 3:36 | Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son won’t see life, for God’s wrath remains on that person.” |
26227 | JHN 4:2 | (although Jesus Himself wasn’t baptizing, but His disciples were), |
26228 | JHN 4:3 | He left Judea, and went back towards Galilee. |
26229 | JHN 4:4 | He had to go through Samaria. |
26230 | JHN 4:5 | He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, |
26231 | JHN 4:6 | and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. |
26232 | JHN 4:7 | A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” |
26233 | JHN 4:8 | His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. |
26234 | JHN 4:9 | The Samaritan woman therefore asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink, since I’m a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.) |
26235 | JHN 4:10 | Jesus answered her, “If you knew God’s gift, and who it is who says to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” |
26236 | JHN 4:11 | The woman said, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where could you get this living water from? |
26237 | JHN 4:12 | Are You greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?” |
26238 | JHN 4:13 | Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will get thirsty again, |
26239 | JHN 4:14 | but whoever drinks the water that I will give will never, ever get thirsty. The water that I will give will become in that person a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” |
26240 | JHN 4:15 | The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming all the way here to draw water.” |
26241 | JHN 4:16 | Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” |
26242 | JHN 4:17 | The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus told her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ |
26243 | JHN 4:18 | for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now isn’t your husband. What you have said is quite true.” |
26244 | JHN 4:19 | The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. |
26245 | JHN 4:20 | Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” |
26246 | JHN 4:21 | Jesus told her, “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. |
26247 | JHN 4:22 | You Samaritans worship what you don’t know. We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. |
26248 | JHN 4:23 | A time is coming, and has now come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks. |
26249 | JHN 4:24 | God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” |
26250 | JHN 4:25 | The woman said to Him, “I know that the Messiah (who is called Christ) is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” |
26251 | JHN 4:26 | Jesus told her, “I who speak to you am He.” |
26252 | JHN 4:27 | Just then Jesus’ disciples returned. They were surprised to find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” |
26253 | JHN 4:28 | Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and began telling the people, |
26254 | JHN 4:29 | “Come, see a man who told me everything that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” |
26255 | JHN 4:30 | They went out of the city, and started to go to Him. |
26256 | JHN 4:31 | Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, saying “Rabbi, eat something.” |
26257 | JHN 4:32 | He told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” |
26258 | JHN 4:33 | So the disciples asked one another, “Nobody brought Him anything to eat, did they?” |
26259 | JHN 4:34 | Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish His work. |
26260 | JHN 4:35 | Don’t you say, ‘It’s still four months until the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. |
26261 | JHN 4:36 | He who harvests is already receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who plants and he who harvests may rejoice together. |
26262 | JHN 4:37 | Thus the saying ‘One plants and another harvests’ is true. |
26263 | JHN 4:38 | I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” |
26264 | JHN 4:39 | Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything that I ever did.” |
26265 | JHN 4:40 | So when the Samaritans arrived, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. |
26266 | JHN 4:41 | Many more believed because of His words. |
26267 | JHN 4:42 | They told the woman, “It’s no longer just because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.” |
26268 | JHN 4:43 | After the two days, He departed from there and went to Galilee, |
26269 | JHN 4:44 | for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. |
26270 | JHN 4:45 | When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they had been there, too. |
26271 | JHN 4:46 | Therefore He came back to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. There was a certain royal official, whose son was sick at Capernaum. |
26272 | JHN 4:47 | When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was at the point of death. |
26273 | JHN 4:48 | Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.” |
26274 | JHN 4:49 | The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” |
26275 | JHN 4:50 | Jesus told him, “Go in peace. Your son lives.” So the man believed the words that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. |
26276 | JHN 4:51 | As he was still going down the road, his servants met him, saying that his son was living. |
26277 | JHN 4:52 | So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they told him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” |
26278 | JHN 4:53 | The father realized that it was at that hour that Jesus told him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, along with his whole household. |
26279 | JHN 4:54 | This was the second sign that Jesus did, when He had come from out of Judea to Galilee. |
26280 | JHN 5:1 | After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
26281 | JHN 5:2 | Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew. It’s surrounded by five covered colonnades. |
26282 | JHN 5:3 | In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water, |
26283 | JHN 5:4 | for an angel went down from time to time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease that person had. |
26284 | JHN 5:5 | A certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. |
26285 | JHN 5:6 | When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been sick for a long time, He asked him, “Do you want to be made well?” |
26286 | JHN 5:7 | The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.” |
26287 | JHN 5:8 | Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk.” |
26288 | JHN 5:9 | Immediately, the man was made well, took up his mat, and walked. That was on the Sabbath day. |
26289 | JHN 5:10 | Therefore the Jews were telling him who was cured, “It’s the Sabbath, and it isn’t legal for you to carry your mat.” |
26290 | JHN 5:11 | He answered them, “He who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’” |
26291 | JHN 5:12 | Then they asked him, “Who told you to ‘Take up your mat and walk’?” |
26292 | JHN 5:13 | The man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. |
26293 | JHN 5:14 | Later, Jesus found him in the temple and told him, “See, you have been made well! Don’t sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” |
26294 | JHN 5:15 | The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. |
26295 | JHN 5:16 | For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. |
26296 | JHN 5:17 | Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” |
26297 | JHN 5:18 | Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. |
26298 | JHN 5:19 | Then Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless He sees the Father do it, for whatever He does, the Son does likewise. |
26299 | JHN 5:20 | The Father loves the Son, and shows Him everything that He Himself does. He will show Him even greater works than these, that you may marvel. |
26300 | JHN 5:21 | As the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whoever He wishes. |
26301 | JHN 5:22 | The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, |
26302 | JHN 5:23 | that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent Him. |
26303 | JHN 5:24 | “Most assuredly, I tell you, the person who hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and won’t come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. |
26304 | JHN 5:25 | Most assuredly, I tell you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear will live. |
26305 | JHN 5:26 | For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, |
26306 | JHN 5:27 | and has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. |
26307 | JHN 5:28 | Don’t marvel at this, for the time is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice |
26308 | JHN 5:29 | and come out — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. |
26309 | JHN 5:30 | I can do nothing by myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me. |
26310 | JHN 5:31 | “If I testify about myself, my testimony isn’t valid. |
26311 | JHN 5:32 | There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony about me is valid. |
26312 | JHN 5:33 | You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. |
26313 | JHN 5:34 | Not that I accept human testimony, but I tell you this so that you may be saved. |
26314 | JHN 5:35 | John was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. |