The Discerner of Hearts
23Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the usigns which He did.
24But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He vknew all men,
25and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for wHe knew what was in man.
John 3
The New Birth
1There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2aThis man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for bno one can do these signs that You do unless cGod is with him.”
3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, dunless one is born 1again, he cannot 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, “Most assuredly, I say to you, eunless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6“That which is born of the flesh is fflesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8g“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, h“How can these things be?”
10Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
11i“Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and jyou do not receive Our witness.
12“If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13k“No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man 2who is in heaven.
14l“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so mmust the Son of Man be lifted up,
15“that whoever nbelieves in Him should 3not perish but ohave eternal life.
16p“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten qSon, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17r“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18s“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19“And this is the condemnation, tthat the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20“For ueveryone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21“But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been vdone in God.”
John the Baptist Exalts Christ
22After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them wand baptized.
23Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near xSalim, because there was much water there. yAnd they came and were baptized.
24For zJohn had not yet been thrown into prison.
25Then there arose a dispute between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification.
26And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, ato whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing, and all bare coming to Him!”
27John answered and said, c“A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28“You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, d‘I am not the Christ,’ but, e‘I have been sent before Him.’
29f“He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but gthe friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
30h“He must increase, but I must decrease.
31i“He who comes from above jis above all; khe who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. lHe who comes from heaven is above all.
32“And mwhat He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.
33“He who has received His testimony nhas certified that God is true.
34o“For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit pby measure.
35q“The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.
36r“He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the swrath of God abides on him.”
John 4
A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
1Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and abaptized more disciples than John
2(though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),
3He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
4But He needed to go through Samaria.
5So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that bJacob cgave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For dJews have no dealings with eSamaritans.
10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the fgift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you gliving water.”
11The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12“Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14“but hwhoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him iwill become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15jThe woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
18“for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19The woman said to Him, “Sir, kI perceive that You are a prophet.
20“Our fathers worshiped on lthis mountain, and you Jews say that in mJerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming nwhen you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22“You worship owhat you do not know; we know what we worship, for psalvation is of the Jews.
23“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will qworship the Father in rspirit sand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24t“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah uis coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, vHe will tell us all things.”
26Jesus said to her, w“I who speak to you am He.”
The Whitened Harvest
27And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28The woman t
hen left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29“Come, see a Man xwho told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34Jesus said to them, y“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to zfinish His work.
35“Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes athe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, bfor they are already white for harvest!
36c“And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that dboth he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37“For in this the saying is true: e‘One sows and another reaps.’
38“I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; fothers have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
The Savior of the World
39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him gbecause of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”
40So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41And many more believed because of His own hword.
42Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for iwe ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed 1the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Welcome at Galilee
43Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee.
44For jJesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, khaving seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; lfor they also had gone to the feast.
A Nobleman’s Son Healed
46So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee mwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a certain 2nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48Then Jesus said to him, n“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.
John 5
A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda
1After athis there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus bwent up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is in Jerusalem cby the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, 1Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, 2paralyzed, 3waiting for the moving of the water.
4For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
5Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” The “I AM” Statements
8Jesus said to him, d“Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
9And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And ethat day was the Sabbath.
10The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; fit is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”
11He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”
12Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”
13But the one who was ghealed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. hSin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
15The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
Honor the Father and the Son
16For this reason the Jews ipersecuted Jesus, 4and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.
17But Jesus answered them, j“My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”
18Therefore the Jews ksought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, lmaking Himself equal with God.
19Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, mthe Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
20“For nthe Father loves the Son, and oshows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21“For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, peven so the Son gives life to whom He will.
22“For the Father judges no one, but qhas committed all judgment to the Son,
23“that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. rHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Life and Judgment Are Through the Son
24“Most assuredly, I say to you, she who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, tbut has passed from death into life.
25“Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when uthe dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.
26“For vas the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have wlife in Himself,
27“and xhas given Him authority to execute judgment also, ybecause He is the Son of Man.
28“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will zhear His voice
29a“and come forth—bthose who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
30c“I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because dI do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
The Fourfold Witness
31e“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not 5true.
32f“There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
33“You have sent to John, gand he has borne witness to the truth.
34“Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.
35“He was the burning and hshining lamp, and iyou were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
36“But jI have a greater witness than John’s; for kthe works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very lworks that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.
37“And the Father Himself, who sent Me, mhas testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nnor seen His form.
38“But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom H
e sent, Him you do not believe.
39o“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and pthese are they which testify of Me.
40q“But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
41r“I do not receive honor from men.
42“But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
44s“How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek tthe honor that comes from the only God?
45“Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; uthere is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.
46“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; vfor he wrote about Me.
47“But if you wdo not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 6
Feeding the Five Thousand
(Matt. 14:13–21; Mark 6:30–44; Luke 9:10–17)
1After athese things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of bTiberias.
2Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were cdiseased.1
3And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
4dNow the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.
5eThen Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to fPhilip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?”
6But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7Philip answered Him, g“Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.”
8One of His disciples, hAndrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
9“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, ibut what are they among so many?”
10Then Jesus said, “Make the people 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 them 2to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.
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