001:045 Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have
found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as
the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."
001:046 "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael.
"Come and see," said Philip.
001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here
is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"
001:048 "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you,"
said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you."
001:049 "Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God,
you are Israel's King!"
001:050 "Because I said to you, `I saw you under the fig-tree,'"
replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater
things than that."
001:051 "I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you
shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up,
and coming down to the Son of Man."
002:001 Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there,
002:002 and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.
002:003 Now the wine ran short; whereupon the mother of Jesus said
to Him, "They have no wine."
002:004 "Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me
to act has not yet come."
002:005 His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he tells you
to do, do it."
002:006 Now there were six stone jars standing there (in accordance
with the Jewish regulations for purification), each large
enough to hold twenty gallons or more.
002:007 Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water."
And they filled them to the brim.
002:008 Then He said, "Now, take some out, and carry it to the President
of the feast."
002:009 So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President
tasted the water now turned into wine, than--not knowing where it
came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew--
he called to the bridegroom
002:010 and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first,
and when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior.
But you have kept the good wine till now."
002:011 This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana
in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His
disciples believed in Him.
002:012 Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother,
and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a
short stay there.
002:013 But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
002:014 And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep
and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
002:015 So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep
and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers
He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.
002:016 And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away.
Do not turn my Father's house into a market."
002:017 This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal
for Thy House will consume me."
002:018 So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you
exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"
002:019 "Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I
will rebuild it."
002:020 "It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build
this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"
002:021 But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.
002:022 When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples
recollected that He had said this; and they believed
the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.
002:023 Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover,
many became believers in Him through watching the miracles
He performed.
002:024 But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them,
because He knew them all,
002:025 and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man,
for He of Himself knew what was in the man.
003:001 Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--
a ruler among the Jews.
003:002 He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you
are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles
which you are doing, unless God is with him.
003:003 "In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless
a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
003:004 "How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born
when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb
and be born?"
003:005 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless
a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter
the Kingdom of God.
003:006 Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever
has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
003:007 Do not be astonished at my telling you, `You must all
be born anew.'
003:008 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound,
but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going.
So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."
003:009 "How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus.
003:010 "Are you," replied Jesus, "`the Teacher of Israel,' and yet
do you not understand these things?
003:011 In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know,
and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses,
and yet you all reject our testimony.
003:012 If I have told you earthly things and none of you believe me,
how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven?
003:013 There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One
who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose
home is in Heaven.
003:014 And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
003:015 in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life
of the Ages."
003:016 For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son,
that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have
the Life of Ages.
003:017 For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world,
but that the world might be saved through Him.
003:018 He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement.
He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has
not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.
003:019 And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has
come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they
loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.
003:020 For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light,
for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.
003:021 But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light,
in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been
done in God.
003:022 After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea;
and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.
003:023 And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were
many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.