Gospel Of John
Chapter 1
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him
nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
John 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:6 There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:7 He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that
all might believe through him.
Chapter 1
John 1:8 He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the
Light.
John 1:9 There was the true Light which, coming into the world,
enlightens every man.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through
Him, and the world did not know Him.
John 1:11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did
not receive Him.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His
name,
John 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the
flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and
we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John 1:15 John testified about Him and cried out, saying,
“This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher
rank than I, for He existed before me.’”
John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace
upon grace.
John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth
were realized through Jesus Christ.
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten
God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
John 1:19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent to
him priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:20 And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “I
am not the Christ.”
John 1:21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he
said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
John 1:22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may
give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about
yourself?”
John 1:23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the
wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the
prophet said.”
John 1:24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
John 1:25 They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you
baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
John 1:26 John answered them saying, “I baptize in water, but
among you stands One whom you do not know.
John 1:27 “It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose
sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
John 1:28 These things took place in
Bethany beyond the
Jordan, where
John was baptizing.
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:30 “This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After me
comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’
John 1:31 “I did not recognize Him, but so that He might be
manifested to
Israel, I came
baptizing in water.”
John 1:32 John testified saying, “I have seen the Spirit
descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.
John 1:33 “I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to
baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit
descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit.’
John 1:34 “I myself have seen, and have testified that this is
the Son of God.”
John 1:35 Again the next day John was standing with two of his
disciples,
John 1:36 and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God!”
John 1:37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
Jesus.
John 1:38 And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to
them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated
means Teacher), where are You staying?”
John 1:39 He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they
came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that
day, for it was about the tenth hour.
John 1:40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed
Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1:41 He found first his own brother Simon and said to
him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).
John 1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and
said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas”
(which is translated Peter).
John 1:43 The next day He purposed to go into
Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him,
“Follow Me.”
John 1:44 Now Philip was from
Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and
Peter.
John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have
found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
John 1:46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out
of Nazareth?” Philip
said to him, “Come and see.”
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him,
“Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
John 1:48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus
answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were
under the fig tree, I saw you.”
John 1:49 Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of
God; You are the King of Israel.”
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to
you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see
greater things than these.”
John 1:51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you
will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and
descending on the Son of Man.”
Chapter 2
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there;
John 2:2 and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the
wedding.
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him,
“They have no wine.”
John 2:4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do
with us? My hour has not yet come.”
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you,
do it.”
John 2:6 Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish
custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
John 2:7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So
they filled them up to the brim.
John 2:8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the
headwaiter.” So they took it to him.
John 2:9 When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine,
and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn
the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom,
John 2:10 and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first,
and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer
wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
John 2:11 This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of
Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in
Him.
John 2:12 After this He went down to
Capernaum, He and His mother and His
brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
John 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who were selling
oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their
tables.
John 2:15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all
out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out
the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
John 2:16 and to those who were selling the doves He said,
“Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of
business.”
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal
for Your house will consume me.”
John 2:18 The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us
as your authority for doing these things?”
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.”
John 2:20 The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to
build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
John 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
John 2:22 So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples
remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and
the word which Jesus had spoken.
John 2:23 Now when He was in
Jerusalem at the Passover, during
the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He
was doing.
John 2:24 But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself
to them, for He knew all men,
John 2:25 and because He did not need anyone to testify
concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.
Chapter 3
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews;
John 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.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to
him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot
see the
kingdom of
God.”
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is
old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be
born, can he?”
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he
cannot enter into the
kingdom of
God.
John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born
again.’
John 3:8 “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of
it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is
everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:9 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher
of Israel
and do not understand these things?
John 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we
know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our
testimony.
John 3:12 “If I told you earthly things and you do not
believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 3:13 “No one has ascended into heaven, but He who
descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
John 3:14 “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
John 3:15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal
life.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but
have eternal life.
John 3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to
judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does
not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into
the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for
their deeds were evil.
John 3:20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and
does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:21 “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light,
so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
John 3:22 After these things Jesus and His disciples came into
the land of
Judea, and there He was spending time
with them and baptizing.
John 3:23 John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because
there was much water there; and people were coming and were being
baptized—
John 3:24 for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
John 3:25 Therefore there arose a discussion on the part of
John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.
John 3:26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He
who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified,
behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”
John 3:27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing
unless it has been given him from heaven.
John 3:28 “You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am
not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’
John 3:29 “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the
friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly
because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made
full.
John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:31 “He who comes from above is above all, he who is of
the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes
from heaven is above all.
John 3:32 “What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies;
and no one receives His testimony.
John 3:33 “He who has received His testimony has set his seal
to this, that God is true.
John 3:34 “For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God;
for He gives the Spirit without measure.
John 3:35 “The Father loves the Son and has given all things
into His hand.
John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he
who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God
abides on him.”
Chapter 4
John 4:1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His
disciples were),
John 4:3 He left
Judea
and went away again into Galilee.
John 4:4 And He had to pass through
Samaria.
John 4:5 So He came to a city of
Samaria called Sychar, near the
parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
John 4:6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from
His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth
hour.
John 4:7 There came a woman of
Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to
her, “Give Me a drink.”
John 4:8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
John 4:9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that
You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”
(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift 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 living water.”
John 4:11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with
and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
John 4:12 “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You,
who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his
cattle?”
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks
of this water will thirst again;
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so
I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”
John 4:16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come
here.”
John 4:17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;
John 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you
now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”
John 4:19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are
a prophet.
John 4:20 “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you
people say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.”
John 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is
coming when neither in this mountain nor in
Jerusalem will you worship the
Father.
John 4:22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what
we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such
people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
John 4:24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is
coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will
declare all things to us.”
John 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
John 4:27 At this point His disciples came, and they were
amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said,
“What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”
John 4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the
city and said to the men,
John 4:29 “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I
have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”
John 4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
John 4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying,
“Rabbi, eat.”
John 4:32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do
not know about.”
John 4:33 So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one
brought Him anything to eat, did he?”
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of
Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:35 “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and
then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and
look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
John 4:36 “Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering
fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together.
John 4:37 “For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and
another reaps.’
John 4:38 “I sent you to reap that for which you have not
labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
John 4:39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in
Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all
the things that I have done.”
John 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were
asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
John 4:41 Many more believed because of His word;
John 4:42 and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer
because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for
ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John 4:43 After the two days He went forth from there into
Galilee.
John 4:44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no
honor in his own country.
John 4:45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him,
having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast;
for they themselves also went to the feast.
John 4:46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He
had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son
was sick at
Capernaum.
John 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into
Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal
his son; for he was at the point of death.
John 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs
and wonders, you simply will not believe.”
John 4:49 The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down
before my child dies.”
John 4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.
John 4:51 As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying
that his son was living.
John 4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get
better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the
fever left him.”
John 4:53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus
said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and his whole
household.
John 4:54 This is again a second sign that Jesus performed
when He had come out of Judea into
Galilee.
Chapter 5
John 5:1 After these things there was
a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
John 5:2 Now there is in
Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool,
which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
John 5:3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind,
lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;
John 5:4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into
the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the
stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever
disease with which he was afflicted.]
John 5:5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had
already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you
wish to get well?”
John 5:7 The 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.”
John 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.”
John 5:9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet
and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
John 5:10 So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured,
“It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your
pallet.”
John 5:11 But he answered them, “He who made me well was the
one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”
John 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you,
‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
John 5:13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was,
for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to
him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that
nothing worse happens to you.”
John 5:15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:16 For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus,
because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:17 But He answered them, “My Father is working until
now, and I Myself am working.”
John 5:18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the
more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but
also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself,
unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the
Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
John 5:20 “For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things
that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works
than these, so that you will marvel.
John 5:21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives
them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
John 5:22 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has
given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor
the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father
who sent Him.
John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word,
and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come
into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is,
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who
hear will live.
John 5:26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so
He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
John 5:27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment,
because He is the Son of Man.
John 5:28 “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which
all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,
John 5:29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to
a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a
resurrection of judgment.
John 5:30 “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I
judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will,
but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 5:31 “If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is
not true.
John 5:32 “There is another who testifies of Me, and I know
that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
John 5:33 “You have sent to John, and he has testified to the
truth.
John 5:34 “But the testimony which I receive is not from man,
but I say these things so that you may be saved.
John 5:35 “He was the lamp that was burning and was shining
and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John 5:36 “But the testimony which I have is greater than the
testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to
accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the
Father has sent Me.
John 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me.
You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
John 5:38 “You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do
not believe Him whom He sent.
John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in
them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
John 5:40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may
have life.
John 5:41 “I do not receive glory from men;
John 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God
in yourselves.
John 5:43 “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.
John 5:44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from
one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and
only God?
John 5:45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the
Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your
hope.
John 5:46 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me,
for he wrote about Me.
John 5:47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how will
you believe My words?”
Chapter 6
John 6:1 After these things Jesus went
away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee
(or Tiberias).
John 6:2 A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs
which He was performing on those who were sick.
John 6:3 Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down
with His disciples.
John 6:4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
John 6:5 Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a
large crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy
bread, so that these may eat?”
John 6:6 This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He
was intending to do.
John 6:7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is
not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”
John 6:8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said
to Him,
John 6:9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two
fish, but what are these for so many people?”
John 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there
was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about
five thousand.
John 6:11 Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks,
He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish
as much as they wanted.
John 6:12 When they were filled, He said to His disciples,
“Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost.”
John 6:13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with
fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those
who had eaten.
John 6:14 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had
performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into
the world.”
John 6:15 So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to
come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the
mountain by Himself alone.
John 6:16 Now when evening came, His disciples went down to
the sea,
John 6:17 and after getting into a boat, they started to cross
the sea to Capernaum. It
had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
John 6:18 The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind
was blowing.
John 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they
saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they
were frightened.
John 6:20 But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
John 6:21 So they were willing to receive Him into the boat,
and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
John 6:22 The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the
sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and
that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but
that His disciples had gone away alone.
John 6:23 There came other small boats from Tiberias near to
the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
John 6:24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor
His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to
Capernaum seeking Jesus.
John 6:25 When they found Him on the other side of the sea,
they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”
John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say
to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate
of the loaves and were filled.
John 6:27 “Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food
which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to
you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
John 6:28 Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so
that we may work the works of God?”
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work
of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”
John 6:30 So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a
sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?
John 6:31 “Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it
is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
John 6:32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it
is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My
Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.
John 6:33 “For the bread of God is that which comes down out
of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
John 6:34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this
bread.”
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who
comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never
thirst.
John 6:36 “But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do
not believe.
John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and
the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
John 6:38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own
will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:39 “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He
has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
John 6:40 “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who
beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I
Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:41 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because
He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”
John 6:42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I
have come down out of heaven’?”
John 6:43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble
among yourselves.
John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me
draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:45 “It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all
be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the
Father, comes to Me.
John 6:46 “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One
who is from God; He has seen the Father.
John 6:47 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has
eternal life.
John 6:48 “I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and
they died.
John 6:50 “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven,
so that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also
which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
John 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another,
saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:53 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 yourselves.
John 6:54 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:55 “For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true
drink.
John 6:56 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in
Me, and I in him.
John 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of
the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
John 6:58 “This is the bread which came down out of heaven;
not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live
forever.”
John 6:59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught
in Capernaum.
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this
said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”
John 6:61 But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this,
said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
John 6:62 “What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He
was before?
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits
nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are
life.
John 6:64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who
it was that would betray Him.
John 6:65 And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you,
that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the
Father.”
John 6:66 As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and
were not walking with Him anymore.
John 6:67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away
also, do you?”
John 6:68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have words of eternal life.
John 6:69 “We have believed and have come to know that You are the
Holy One of God.”
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the
twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”
John 6:71 Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one
of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
Chapter 7
John 7:1 After these things Jesus was
walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to
walk in
Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
John 7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.
John 7:3 Therefore His brothers said
to Him, “Leave here and go into Judea, so
that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.
John 7:4 “For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks
to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the
world.”
John 7:5 For not even His brothers were believing in Him.
John 7:6 So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your
time is always opportune.
John 7:7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I
testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 7:8 “Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this
feast because My time has not yet fully come.”
John 7:9 Having said these things to
them, He stayed in Galilee.
John 7:10 But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then
He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.
John 7:11 So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were
saying, “Where is He?”
John 7:12 There was much grumbling among the crowds concerning
Him; some were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No,
on the contrary, He leads the people astray.”
John 7:13 Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of
the Jews.
John 7:14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus
went up into the temple, and began to teach.
John 7:15 The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this
man become learned, having never been educated?”
John 7:16 So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not
Mine, but His who sent Me.
John 7:17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know
of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from
Myself.
John 7:18 “He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but
He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and
there is no unrighteousness in Him.
John 7:19 “Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you
carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”
John 7:20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to
kill You?”
John 7:21 Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all
marvel.
John 7:22 “For this reason Moses has given you circumcision
(not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the
Sabbath you circumcise a man.
John 7:23 “If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so
that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me
because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge
with righteous judgment.”
John 7:25 So some of the people of
Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not
the man whom they are seeking to kill?
John 7:26 “Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying
nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the
Christ, do they?
John 7:27 “However, we know where this man is from; but
whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.”
John 7:28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and
saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not
come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
John 7:29 “I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
John 7:30 So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid
his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
John 7:31 But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were
saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than
those which this man has, will He?”
John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things
about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to
seize Him.
John 7:33 Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I
am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.
John 7:34 “You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I
am, you cannot come.”
John 7:35 The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this
man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to
go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?
John 7:36 “What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek
Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him
come to Me and drink.
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From
his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
John 7:39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed
in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because
Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 7:40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these
words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.”
John 7:41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still
others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from
Galilee, is He?
John 7:42 “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes
from the descendants of David, and from
Bethlehem, the village where David
was?”
John 7:43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.
John 7:44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid
hands on Him.
John 7:45 The officers then came to the chief priests and
Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the
way this man speaks.”
John 7:47 The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also
been led astray, have you?
John 7:48 “No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in
Him, has he?
John 7:49 “But this crowd which does not know the Law is
accursed.”
John 7:50 Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of
them) said to them,
John 7:51 “Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears
from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
John 7:52 They answered him, “You are not also from
Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises
out of Galilee.”
John 7:53 [Everyone went to his home.
Chapter 8
John 8:1 But Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives.
John 8:2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all
the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach
them.
John 8:3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in
adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,
John 8:4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in
adultery, in the very act.
John 8:5 “Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women;
what then do You say?”
John 8:6 They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have
grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger
wrote on the ground.
John 8:7 But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up,
and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the
first to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:8 Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
John 8:9 When they heard it, they began to go out one by one,
beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman,
where she was, in the center of the court.
John 8:10 Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where
are they? Did no one condemn you?”
John 8:11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not
condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”]
John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the
Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness,
but will have the Light of life.”
John 8:13 So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying
about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.”
John 8:14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify
about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and
where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I
am going.
John 8:15 “You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging
anyone.
John 8:16 “But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I
am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.
John 8:17 “Even in your law it has been written that the
testimony of two men is true.
John 8:18 “I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father
who sent Me testifies about Me.”
John 8:19 So they were saying to Him, “Where is Your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father; if you knew Me,
you would know My Father also.”
John 8:20 These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught
in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet
come.
John 8:21 Then He said again to them, “I go away, and you will
seek Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot
come.”
John 8:22 So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill
Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot
come’?”
John 8:23 And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from
above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
John 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your
sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your
sins.”
John 8:25 So they were saying to Him, “Who are You?” Jesus
said to them, “What have I been saying to you from the beginning?
John 8:26 “I have many things to speak and to judge concerning
you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from
Him, these I speak to the world.”
John 8:27 They did not realize that He had been speaking to
them about the Father.
John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I
speak these things as the Father taught Me.
John 8:29 “And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me
alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”
John 8:30 As He spoke these things, many came to believe in
Him.
John 8:31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed
Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of
Mine;
John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make
you free.”
John 8:33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and
have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You
will become free’?”
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
John 8:35 “The slave does not remain in the house forever; the
son does remain forever.
John 8:36 “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free
indeed.
John 8:37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you
seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.
John 8:38 “I speak the things which I have seen with My
Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your
father.”
John 8:39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our
father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the
deeds of Abraham.
John 8:40 “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who
has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not
do.
John 8:41 “You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said
to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would
love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have
not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.
John 8:43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is
because you cannot hear My word.
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to
do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.
Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a
liar and the father of lies.
John 8:45 “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe
Me.
John 8:46 “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak
truth, why do you not believe Me?
John 8:47 “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this
reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
John 8:48 The Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say
rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
John 8:49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor
My Father, and you dishonor Me.
John 8:50 “But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks
and judges.
John 8:51 “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word
he will never see death.”
John 8:52 The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone
keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’
John 8:53 “Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham,
who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to
be?”
John 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is
nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is
our God’;
John 8:55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if
I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do
know Him and keep His word.
John 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he
saw it and was glad.”
John 8:57 So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty
years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
before Abraham was born, I am.”
John 8:59 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but
Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
Chapter 9
John 9:1 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man
or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
John 9:3 Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor
his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed
in him.
John 9:4 “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is
day; night is coming when no one can work.
John 9:5 “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
John 9:6 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
John 9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is
translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.
John 9:8 Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him
as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and
beg?”
John 9:9 Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying,
“No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”
John 9:10 So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes
opened?”
John 9:11 He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay,
and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I
went away and washed, and I received sight.”
John 9:12 They said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I do not
know.”
John 9:13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who was
formerly blind.
John 9:14 Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the
clay and opened his eyes.
John 9:15 Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he
received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my
eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
John 9:16 Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This
man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But
others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such
signs?” And there was a division among them.
John 9:17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you
say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a
prophet.”
John 9:18 The Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been
blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the
very one who had received his sight,
John 9:19 and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who
you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
John 9:20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that
this is our son, and that he was born blind;
John 9:21 but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened
his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for
himself.”
John 9:22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the
Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him
to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask
him.”
John 9:24 So a second time they called the man who had been
blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is
a sinner.”
John 9:25 He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not
know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
John 9:26 So they said to him, “What did He do to you? How did
He open your eyes?”
John 9:27 He answered them, “I told you already and you did
not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to
become His disciples too, do you?”
John 9:28 They reviled him and said, “You are His disciple,
but we are disciples of Moses.
John 9:29 “We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for
this man, we do not know where He is from.”
John 9:30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an
amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He
opened my eyes.
John 9:31 “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if
anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
John 9:32 “Since the beginning of time it has never been heard
that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.
John 9:33 “If this man were not from God, He could do
nothing.”
John 9:34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins,
and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding
him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
John 9:36 He answered, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in
Him?”
John 9:37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He
is the one who is talking with you.”
John 9:38 And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped
Him.
John 9:39 And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this
world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see
may become blind.”
John 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these
things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?”
John 9:41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would
have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
Chapter 10
John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the
door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is
a thief and a robber.
John 10:2 “But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
John 10:3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his
voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:4 “When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,
and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:5 “A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee
from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 10:6 This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did
not understand what those things were which He had been saying to
them.
John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the
sheep did not hear them.
John 10:9 “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be
saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays
down His life for the sheep.
John 10:12 “He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not
the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep
and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
John 10:13 “He flees because he is a hired hand and is not
concerned about the sheep.
John 10:14 “I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My
own know Me,
John 10:15 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father;
and I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 10:16 “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I
must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will
become one flock with one shepherd.
John 10:17 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay
down My life so that I may take it again.
John 10:18 “No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it
down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I
have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from
My Father.”
John 10:19 A division occurred again among the Jews because of
these words.
John 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is
insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
John 10:21 Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of
one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can
he?”
John 10:22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place
at Jerusalem;
John 10:23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple
in the portico of Solomon.
John 10:24 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying
to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the
Christ, tell us plainly.”
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not
believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of
Me.
John 10:26 “But you do not believe because you are not of My
sheep.
John