The Word<n id="1" /> was with God in the beginning.

But some of them said, &#8220;This is the man who caused the blind man to see!<n id="1" /> Couldn&#8217;t he have done something to keep Lazarus<n id="2" /> from dying?&#8221;p>

I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> were astonished<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?&#8221;<n id="3" />

But this rabble<n id="1" /> who do not know the law are accursed!&#8221;p>

If this man<n id="1" /> were not from God, he could do nothing.&#8221;

So when Peter saw him,<n id="1" /> he asked Jesus, &#8220;Lord, what about him?&#8221;

He came as a witness<n id="1" /> to testify<n id="2" /> about the light, so that everyone<n id="3" /> might believe through him.

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot,<n id="1" /> for Judas,<n id="2" /> one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then some of the residents of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> began to say, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the man<n id="2" /> they are trying<n id="3" /> to kill?

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they heard these words, some of the crowd<n id="1" /> began to say, &#8220;This really<n id="2" /> is the Prophet!&#8221;<n id="3" />

They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If this man<n id="2" /> were not a criminal,<n id="3" /> we would not have handed him over to you.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

This is the one about whom I said, &#8216;After me comes a man who is greater than I am,<n id="1" /> because he existed before me.&#8217;

He first<n id="1" /> found his own brother Simon and told him, &#8220;We have found the Messiah!&#8221;<n id="2" /> (which is translated Christ).<n id="3" />

Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;This temple has been under construction<n id="2" /> for forty-six years,<n id="3" /> and are you going to raise it up in three days?&#8221;

&#8220;Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can&#8217;t be the Messiah,<n id="1" /> can he?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus<n id="1" /> performed, they began to say to one another, &#8220;This is certainly <i>the Propheti><n id="2" /> <i>who is to come into the worldi>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God &#8211; he<n id="1" /> has seen the Father.)<n id="2" />

This<n id="1" /> is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person<n id="2" /> may eat from it and not die.

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus<n id="1" /> began to argue with one another,<n id="2" /> &#8220;How can this man<n id="3" /> give us his flesh to eat?&#8221;