42So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,43and He took it and ate it in front of them.44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

45Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.46And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.48You are witnesses of these things.49And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

The Ascension

50When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.51While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.52And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,53praising God continually in the temple.

The Beginning

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2He was with God in the beginning.3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.5The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

The Witness of John

6There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.7He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.8He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

The Word Became Flesh

14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.15John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

The Mission of John the Baptist

19And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

20He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”

21“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

22So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

24Then the Pharisees who had been sent25asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.27He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”28All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Jesus the Lamb of God

29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!30This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”32Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.33I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’34I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

The First Disciples

35The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.36When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”37And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.38Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”

39“Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.40Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).42Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael

43The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

46“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.

47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

48“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

49“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

50Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”51Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

The Wedding at Cana

1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,2and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

4“Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.7Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.8“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside10and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”11Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.15So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.16To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

18On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

19Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

20“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.22After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

23While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.24But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.25He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

Jesus and Nicodemus

1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

4“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.7Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’