John 1 to 5

1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

1:18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are thou?

1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

1:21 And they asked him, What then? Are you Elias? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.

1:22 Then said they unto him, Who are thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest you of thyself?

1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.

1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest you then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?

1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you, whom you know not;

1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.

1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;

1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God!

1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

1:38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and says unto them, What do you seek? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwells thou?

1:39 He says unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.

1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

1:41 He first finds his own brother Simon, and says unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, You are Simon the son of Jona: you shall be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

1:43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and finds Philip, and says unto him, Follow me.

1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

1:45 Philip finds Nathanael, and says unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says unto him, Come and see.

1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

1:48 Nathanael says unto him, From where do you know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called you, when you was under the fig tree, I saw you.

1:49 Nathanael answered and says unto him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.

1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto you, I saw you under the fig tree, believest thou? you shall see greater things than these.

1:51 And he says unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

John Chapter 2

2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus says unto him, They have no wine.

2:4 Jesus says unto her, Woman, what have I to do with you? mine hour is not yet come.

2:5 His mother says unto the servants, Whatsoever he says unto you, do it.

2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

2:7 Jesus says unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

2:8 And he says unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not from where it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

2:10 And says unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now.

2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things from here; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up.

2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest you unto us, seeing that you doest these things?

2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rear it up in three days?

2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

John Chapter 3

3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you doest, except God be with him.

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

3:4 Nicodemus says unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

3:7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.

3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hearest the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and whither it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art you a master of Israel, and knows not these things?

3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.

3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

3:13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

3:15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

3:18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

3:21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

3:23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.

3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you barest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.

3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

3:28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

3:29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

3:31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.

3:32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.

3:33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.

3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.

3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.

John Chapter 4

4:1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

4:2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

4:3 He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.

4:5 Then comes he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

4:7 There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says unto her, Give me to drink.

4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

4:9 Then says the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that you, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me to drink; you wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

4:11 The woman says unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?

4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:

4:14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

4:15 The woman says unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw.

4:16 Jesus says unto her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, You have well said, I have no husband:

4:18 For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that saidst you truly.

4:19 The woman says unto him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

4:21 Jesus says unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

4:22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.

4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

4:25 The woman says unto him, I know that Messias comes, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

4:26 Jesus says unto her, I that speak unto you am he.

4:27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest you with her?

4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and says to the men,

4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

4:30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of.

4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought him ought to eat?

4:34 Jesus says unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

4:35 Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

4:36 And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

4:37 And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.

4:38 I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.

4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

4:41 And many more believed because of his own word;

4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world.

4:43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

4:45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

4:48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

4:49 The nobleman says unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

4:50 Jesus says unto him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Your son lives.

4:52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house.

4:54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.

John Chapter 5

5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

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

5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he says unto him, Will you be made whole?

5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

5:8 Jesus says unto him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk.

5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry thy bed.

5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up your bed, and walk.

5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto you, Take up your bed, and walk?

5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

5:14 Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.

5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works hereto, and I work.

5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.

5:20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

5:22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:

5:23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.

5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

5:26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;

5:27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.

5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

5:32 There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

5:33 You sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved.

5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.

5:37 And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

5:38 And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not.

5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

5:40 And you will not come to me, that you might have life.

5:41 I receive not honor from men.

5:42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.

5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

5:44 How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?

5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.

5:46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

5:47 But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?