He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!”

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

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

It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

So Jesus said to them again, “I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.