When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

Then they shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”

So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

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

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.

The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.