The Word was with God in the beginning.

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.”

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

So when Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

They replied, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).