John 1:20–21:25

²⁰And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “^aI am not the ¹Christ.”

²¹And they asked him, “What then? Are you ^aElijah?” And he ^*said, “I am not.” “Are you ^bthe Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

²²Therefore, they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

²³He said, “I am ^aa voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the ¹Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

²⁴Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the ¹Christ, nor Elijah, nor ^athe Prophet?”

²⁶John answered them, saying, “^aI baptize with water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

²⁷“This One is ^aHe who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie the ^bstrap of His sandal.”

²⁸These things took place in Bethany ^abeyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹On the next day, he ^*saw Jesus coming to him and ^*said, “Behold, ^athe Lamb of God who ^btakes away the sin of the world!

³⁰“This is He of whom I said, ‘^aAfter me comes a man who has been ¹ahead of me, ^bfor He existed before me.’

³¹“I did not know ¹Him, but so that He might be manifested to Israel, I came baptizing with water.”

³²And John ^abore witness saying, “^bI have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abided on Him.

³³“And I did not know ¹Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him, ^athis is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

³⁴“And I myself have seen, and have borne witness that this is ^athe Son of God.”

Behold, the Lamb of God

^35aOn the next day, John again was standing ¹with two of his disciples,

³⁶and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and ^*said, “Behold, ^athe Lamb of God!”

³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak and followed Jesus.

³⁸And when Jesus turned and noticed them following, He ^*said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “^aRabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?”

³⁹He ^*said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day. It was about the ¹tenth hour.

^40aOne of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

⁴¹He first ^*found his own brother Simon and ^*said to him, “We have found the ^aMessiah” (which translated means ¹Christ).

⁴²He brought him to Jesus. When Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of ^aJohn; you shall be called ^bCephas” (which is translated ^1cPeter).

^43aOn the next day, He desired to go into ^bGalilee, and He ^*found ^cPhilip. And Jesus ^*said to him, “^dFollow Me.”

⁴⁴Now ^aPhilip was from ^bBethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

^45aPhilip ^*found ^bNathanael and ^*said to him, “We have found Him of whom ^cMoses in the Law and also ^dthe Prophets wrote—Jesus of ^eNazareth, ^fthe son of Joseph.”

⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him, “^aCan any good thing come out of Nazareth?” ^bPhilip ^*said to him, “Come and see.”

⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and ^*said about him, “Behold, truly an ^aIsraelite in whom there is no deceit!”

⁴⁸Nathanael ^*said to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before ^aPhilip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

⁴⁹Nathanael answered Him, “^aRabbi, You are ^bthe Son of God; You are the ^cKing of Israel.”

⁵⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

⁵¹And He ^*said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see ^athe heavens opened and ^bthe angels of God ascending and descending on ^cthe Son of Man.”

CHAPTER 2

The Wedding at Cana

¹And on ^athe third day there was a wedding in ^bCana of Galilee, and the ^cmother of Jesus was there;

²and both Jesus and His ^adisciples were invited to the wedding.

³And when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus ^*said to Him, “They have no wine.”

⁴And Jesus ^*said to her, “^aWoman, ^1bwhat do I have to do with you? ^cMy hour has not yet come.”

⁵His ^amother ^*said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

⁶Now there were six stone water jars set there ^afor the Jewish custom of purification, containing ¹two or three measures each.

⁷Jesus ^*said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

⁸And He ^*said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it to him.

⁹Now when the headwaiter tasted the water ^awhich had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter ^*called the bridegroom,

¹⁰and ^*said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people ^ahave ¹drunk freely, then the inferior wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

¹¹Jesus did this in Cana of ^aGalilee as the beginning of His ^1bsigns, and manifested His ^cglory, and His disciples believed in Him.

¹²After this He went down to ^aCapernaum, He and His ^bmother and His ^cbrothers and His ^ddisciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

^13aAnd the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus ^bwent up to Jerusalem.

^14aAnd He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

¹⁵And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

¹⁶and to those who were selling ^athe doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making ^bMy Father’s house a ¹place of business.”

¹⁷His ^adisciples remembered that it was written, “^bZeal for Your house will consume me.”

^18aThe Jews then said to Him, “^bWhat sign do You show us ¹as your authority for doing these things?”

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “^aDestroy this ¹sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.”

^20aThe Jews then said, “It took ^bforty-six years to build this sanctuary, and will You raise it up in three days?”

²¹But He was speaking about ^athe sanctuary of His body.

²²So when He was raised from the dead, His ^adisciples ^bremembered that He said this; and they believed ^cthe Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

²³Now when He was in Jerusalem at ^athe Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, ^bwhen they saw His signs which He was doing.

²⁴But Jesus, ¹on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for ^aHe knew all men,

²⁵and because He had no need that anyone bear witness concerning man, ^afor He Himself knew what was in man.

CHAPTER 3

You Must Be Born Again

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named ^aNicodemus, a ^bruler of the Jews;

²this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “^aRabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these ^1bsigns that You do unless ^cGod is with him.”

³Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one ^ais born ¹again he cannot see ^bthe kingdom of God.”

⁴Nicodemus ^*said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

⁵Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of ^awater and the Spirit he cannot enter into ^bthe kingdom of God.

⁶“^aThat which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born ¹again.’

⁸“^aThe wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you ^athe teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

¹¹“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^awe speak of what we know and ^bbear witness of what we have seen, and ^cyou do not accept our witness.

¹²“If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³“^aAnd no one has ascended into heaven, but ^bHe who descended from heaven, ^cthe Son of Man.

¹⁴“And as ^aMoses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ^bthe Son of Man ^cbe lifted up;

¹⁵so that whoever believes will ^ain Him have eternal life.

¹⁶“For God ¹so ^aloved the world, that He ^bgave His ^2conly begotten Son, that whoever ^dbelieves in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁷“For God ^adid not send the Son into the world ^bto judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁸“^aHe who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of ^bthe ¹only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹“And this is the judgment, that ^athe Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for ^btheir deeds were evil.

²⁰“^aFor everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light lest his deeds be exposed.

²¹“But he who ^apractices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been done by God.”

John the Baptist’s Last Witness

²²After these things Jesus and His ^adisciples came into the land of Judea, and there He was spending time with them and ^bbaptizing.

²³And John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized—

²⁴for ^aJohn had not yet been thrown into prison.

²⁵Therefore there arose a debate between John’s disciples and a Jew about ^apurification.

²⁶And they came to John and said to him, “^aRabbi, He who was with you ^bbeyond the Jordan, to whom you ^chave borne witness, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”

²⁷John answered and said, “^aA man can receive nothing unless it ^bhas been given him from heaven.

²⁸“You yourselves ¹are my witnesses that I said, ‘^aI am not the ²Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

²⁹“He who has the bride is ^athe bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this ^b…