Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

and because of his word many more believed.

They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

[[And each one departed to his own house.

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.