John<n id="1" /> testified<n id="2" /> about him and shouted out,<n id="3" /> &#8220;This one was the one about whom I said, &#8216;He who comes after me is greater than I am,<n id="4" /> because he existed before me.&#8217;&#8221;

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture<n id="1" /> and the saying<n id="2" /> that Jesus had spoken.p>

The one who believes in him is not condemned.<n id="1" /> The one who does not believe has been condemned<n id="2" /> already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only<n id="3" /> Son of God.

Now this is the basis for judging:<n id="1" /> that the light has come into the world and people<n id="2" /> loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now at that very moment his disciples came back.<n id="1" /> They were shocked<n id="2" /> because he was speaking<n id="3" /> with a woman. However, no one said, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221;<n id="4" /> or &#8220;Why are you speaking with her?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He told me everything I ever did.&#8221;

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him<n id="1" /> to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

Then the father realized that it was the very time<n id="1" /> Jesus had said to him, &#8220;Your son will live,&#8221; and he himself believed along with his entire household.

For this reason the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> 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.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> the one who hears<n id="2" /> my message<n id="3" /> and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned,<n id="4" /> but has crossed over from death to life.

I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> a time<n id="2" /> is coming &#8211; and is now here &#8211; when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

I can do nothing on my own initiative.<n id="1" /> Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,<n id="2" /> because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.<n id="3" />p>

Then Jesus, when he looked up<n id="1" /> and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, &#8220;Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?&#8221;

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats<n id="1" /> and came to Capernaum<n id="2" /> looking for Jesus.p>

and they said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, &#8216;I have come down from heaven&#8217;?&#8221;

There was<n id="1" /> a lot of grumbling<n id="2" /> about him among the crowds.<n id="3" /> Some were saying, &#8220;He is a good man,&#8221; but others, &#8220;He deceives the common people.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to one another, &#8220;Where is he<n id="2" /> going to go that we cannot find him?<n id="3" /> He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed<n id="4" /> among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,<n id="2" /> and I do nothing on my own initiative,<n id="3" /> but I speak just what the Father taught me.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the Judeans<n id="2" /> responded,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Now we know you&#8217;re possessed by a demon!<n id="4" /> Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet<n id="5" /> you say, &#8216;If anyone obeys<n id="6" /> my teaching,<n id="7" /> he will never experience<n id="8" /> death.&#8217;<n id="9" />

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless.<n id="2" /> The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people<n id="3" /> say, &#8216;He is our God.&#8217;