They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

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.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” Peter denied it: “I am not!”

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

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?”

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can see.”

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?