The Good News According to John
11 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 12 The same was in the beginning with God. 13 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. 14 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 15 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome [1] it. 16 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 17 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 18 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. 19 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
110 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. 111 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 112 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 113 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 114 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 115 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’” 116 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 117 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 118 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him. ( . . . )
(The miracle of the
wine at a wedding…)
21 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. 22 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. 23 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
24 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
25 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.” 26 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes[2] apiece. 27 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. 28 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it. 29 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom 210 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!” 211 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
(Jesus drives
merchants from the temple…)((
212 After
this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his
disciples; and they stayed there a few days. 213 The
Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 214 He
found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of
money sitting. 215 He
made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the
oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. 216 To
those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s
house a marketplace!” 217 His
disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
(
. . . )
(Nicodemus asks about
being born again...)
31 Now there was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 32 The
same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a
teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is
with him.”
33 Jesus answered him, “Most
certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
34 Nicodemus 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?”
35 Jesus answered, “Most certainly
I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s
Kingdom. 36 That which is born of the flesh
is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 37 Don’t marvel that I said to
you, ‘You must be born anew.’ 38 The
wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it
comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
39 Nicodemus answered him, “How
can these things be?”
310 Jesus answered him, “Are you
the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? 311 Most certainly I tell you, we
speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t
receive our witness. 312 If
I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell
you heavenly things? 313 No
one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of
Man, who is in heaven. 314 As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, 315 that whoever believes in him should
not perish, but have eternal life. 316 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish, but have eternal life. 317 For
God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world
should be saved through him. 318 He
who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged
already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of
God. 319 This
is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the
darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 320 For everyone who does evil
hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be
exposed. 321 But
he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that
they have been done in God.”
( . . . )
(The Samaritan woman
at the well…)
41 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 42 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 43 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria. 45 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 46 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.[3] 47 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 48 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
49 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
410 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
411 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? 412 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
413 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,414 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
415 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
416 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
417 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 418 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
419 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 420 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
421 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 422 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 423 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 424 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
425 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
426 Jesus
said to her, “I am he,
the one who speaks to you.” 427 At
this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet
no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” 428 So the
woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, 429 “Come,
see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?” ( . . . )
439 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.” 440 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 441 Many more believed because of his word. 442 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
(Healing a Nobleman’s
child...)
443 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. 444 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 445 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. 446 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 447 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 448 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
449 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 450 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 451 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” 452 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” 453 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. 454 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
( . . . )
(Healing a blind man…)
91 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 92 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
93 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 94 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 95 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 96 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, 97 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 98 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” 99 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.” 910 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
911 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
912 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
913 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. 914 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 915 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
916 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them. 917 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
918 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 919 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
920 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 921 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” 922 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 923 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
924 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
925 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
926 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
927 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
928 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 929 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
930 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 931 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. 932 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 933 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
934 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
935 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
936 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
937 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
938 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
939 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
940 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
941 Jesus said to them, 9 “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
( . . . )
(The raising of
Lazarus from the dead…)
111 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 112 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. 113 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.” 114 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.” 115 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 116 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 117 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”
118 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
119 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 1110 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” 1111 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
1112 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
1113 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 1114 So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. 1115 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
1116 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
1117 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 1118 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia[4] away. 1119 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 1120 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 1121 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 1122 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 1123 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
1124 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
1125 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 1126 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
1127 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
1128 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”
1129 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. 1130 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 1131 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.” 1132 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
1133 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 1134 and said, “Where have you laid him?”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
1135 Jesus wept.
1136 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” 1137 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
1138 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 1139 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
1140 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
1141 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. 1142 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” 1143 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
1144 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
1145 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
(The last few chapters of John, which deal with the arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ Jesus parallel the presentation in Luke, so have not been included.)