John 1 - 5

1:1 Inside of the beginning and source is the Word, and the Word is actively towards God, and God is actively the word. 2 He [the Word] is inside of the beginning and source towards God. 3 All through Him become, and without Him not even one thing becomes that has become. 4 Inside of Him is life actively, and this life is the light of humans. 5 This light is made visible inside of the darkness, and the darkness does not seize hold of it.

6 There came a man sent from God named John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, that all might believe through Him. 8 John was not the light, but a witness concerning the light. 9 That Light is true, who gives light to every man entering into the world-cosmos.

10 He is inside of the world-cosmos, and the world-cosmos becomes through him. Yet the world does not know Him. 11 He came to His own and His own did not seize hold of Him. 12 Yet many do seize hold of Him, and to them He gives the authority and right to be sons born out from God, even to those believing into His name, 13 those who are conceived not from blood nor out of the desire of flesh, nor out of the desire of man, but out from God.

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we looked upon His glory, glory as the Only-Seed [as of the only Kind that is] from Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John testified concerning Him crying loudly, “This is He of whom I spoke, ‘The One coming after me has precedence over me, for He is before me.’ 16 For out from His fullness, we have all already received grace even out from grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth become [our reality] [only] through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen or looked upon God, ever, at any time. The Only-Seed of God, existing inside of the bosom of the Father, He has made [an invisible] God known [He is the way or the narration, through which God is known]. {clearly referencing the ekenosis, calling forth an invisible God}.

19 This is the testimony of John, when the Judeans sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem, that they might ask him, “Who are you?” 20 John spoke the same word without contradiction, “I am not the Christ.” 21 Then they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” But he answered, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” But he answered, “No.” 22 They asked him again, “Who are you, that we might give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” 23 John said, “I am a voice calling out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’ (Isaiah 40:3), as said Isaiah the prophet.”

24 Those sent were from the Pharisees; 25 they asked him, “Why, then, do you immerse people, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I immerse people in water; but among you stands One whom you do not know. 27 This One comes after me, of whom I am not worthy even to untie the strap of His sandal.” 28 All this was taking place across the Jordan from Bethany, were John was immersing people.  

29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him. He said, “Behold the Lamb of God, removing the sin of the world-cosmos.” 30 For His sake I said, “After me comes a man who has precedence over me, for He is before me. 31 I did not know Him, but I came to immerse people in water so that He might be made visible and known to Israel. 32 And John testified, “I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of the sky and abiding upon Him. 33 I did not know Him, but the One who sent me to immerse people in water, He said to me, ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, He is the One immersing people inside of the Devoted Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and testified that this Man is the Son of God.”

35 On the next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples. 36 And having seen Jesus walking, he said, “Look at the Lamb of God!” 36 Those two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus. 37 Jesus turned to see them following. He said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which is to say in translation, ‘Teacher’),where are you abiding?” 39 He said to them, “Come and see.”

So they went, around the tenth hour, and saw where He abode and stayed with Him that day.. 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who had heard John and followed Jesus, 41 Right away, Andrew found his brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah (which is translated ‘Christ’).” 42 Andrew led Simon towards Jesus. When Jesus saw him, He, said, “You are Simon, the son of John; you will be called Cephas, (which means ‘Rock’ [that is, Peter]).”

43 On the next day, He wanted to go into Galilee where He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.” 44 This was the Philip from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip then found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the law and the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. 46 But Nathanael said to him, “Is anything good able to come from Nazareth? Philip answered him, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards Him, and He said concerning him, “Behold, a true Israelite, in whom is no deceit.” 48 Nathanael asked Him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Phillip spoke to you, I say you under the fig tree.” 49 Nathanael answered Him, “Teacher, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? Greater things than these you will see.” 51 And He said to him, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man”


2:1 On the third day after, a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Moreover, Jesus was also invited to the wedding with His disciples. 3 Because they did not have enough wine, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They do not have any more wine.” 4 Jesus said to her, “What is that to you and Me, My lady? My hour is not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says, you do it.”

6 There were standing nearby six water jars of stone, used for cleansing by the Judeans, each having space for two or three measures. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the top. 8 Then He said to them, “Draw out, now, and carry to the master of the feast.” And they did so.

9 Then, when the master of the feast had tasted the water which had become wine, he did not know from where it came, although the servants who drew the water knew. The master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone sets out the good wine first, followed by the inferior after the guests have drunk freely. But you have kept the best wine until now.”

11 Jesus did this in Cana of Galilee as the beginning of the signs and so made visible His glory; and His disciples believed into Him.  12 After this He went down into Capernaum with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples. There they stayed not many days.

13 At this time, the Passover of the Judeans was near, so Jesus went up into Jerusalem. 14 There He found inside the temple those selling oxen, sheep, and doves, along with the money-changers sitting [at their tables]. 15 After Jesus had made a whip out of cords, He drove the sheep and oxen out from the temple. He poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 Then He said to those selling doves, “Take these things from this place. Do not make the house of My Father a market-place. 17 His disciples remembered that it is written of Him, “The zeal of Your house will eat Me up [will consume Me]” (Psalm 69:9).

18 Then the Judeans said to Him, “What sign do you show us, that you would do these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days, I will raise it up.” 20 The Judeans then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it up in three days?” 21 However, Jesus was speaking concerning the temple of His body. 22 After He was raised up out from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this and believed the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

23 Then, when Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast, many believed into His name, watching Him and the signs which He was doing. 24 On His part, however, Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all. 25 He had no need for anyone to tell Him about humans, for He knew what was inside of mankind.


3:1 There was at that time a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans.  2 Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Teacher, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one could do these signs that You do if God were not with Him.”

3 Jesus answered him, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, If anyone is not conceived from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How is a man able to be conceived, being old? Is he able to enter the womb of his mother a second time to be conceived?” 5 Jesus answered, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, If anyone is not conceived out from water and out from Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. 6 Whatever is conceived from the flesh is flesh; in the same way, whatever is conceived out from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not wonder that I said to you, ‘It is necessary for you to be conceived from above.’ 8 As the wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but do not know from where it comes and to where it goes, even so is everyone who has been conceived out from the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “You are a teacher of Israel, and yet, you do not know these things? 11 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, We speak of what we know and we testify of what we have seen, yet you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have spoken of earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? 13 No one ascends up into heaven except the One who has descended out from heaven, the Son of man who is inside of Heaven. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so it is inevitable that the Son of man be lifted up in the same way 15 so that everyone believing inside of Him might possess age-unfolding life. 16 For God loves the world-cosmos such that He gave His Son, His Only-Seed, so that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but should possess age-unfolding life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world-cosmos that He might judge the world-cosmos, but so that the world-cosmos might be saved through Him.

18 The one believing into Him is not judged, the one not believing, however, has already been judged, because he has not believed into the name of the Son, the Only-Seed out from God. 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the cosmos and men love the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds are evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, that his works might not be exposed. 21 The one practicing the truth, however, comes to the light, that his works might be made visible that they have been done inside of God.

22 After these things Jesus came with His disciples into the land of the Judeans and there stayed with them and was immersing people in water. 23 John was also immersing people at Aenon, near Salim, because there was much water there and many were coming to be immersed. 24 At this point, John had not yet been thrown into the prison. 25 A debate then arose between the disciples of John and a certain Judean about purification. 26 They came to John and said to him, ‘Teacher, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One to whom you gave witness, look, He immerses people in water, and everyone is going to Him.”

27 John answered them, “A man is able to receive nothing, unless it is given to him out from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear witness of me that I said that I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before Him. 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. Now, the friend of the bridegroom, the one who stands and listens for Him, rejoices with joy when he hears the voice of the bridegroom. Thus is my joy fulfilled. 30 It is inevitable for Him to increase and for me to be made less. 31 The One coming from above is above all. The one whose being is out from the earth is out from the earth and speaks out from the earth. The One coming out from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies of what He has seen and heard, but no one receives His testimony. The one who receives and seizes hold of His testimony has set his seal that God is true and is telling us the truth. 33 Indeed, the One whom God sends speaks God’s words, for God does not limit the giving of His Spirit. 34 The Father loves the Son and has given all into His hand. 35 The one who believes into the Son possesses age-unfolding life; the one who will not hear the words of the Son, however, will not see life, but the settled anger and opposition of God remains upon him.


4:1 When Jesus knew, then, that the Pharisees had heard that He made and immersed more disciples than John, (2 Jesus Himself was not baptizing, however, but only His disciples), 3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. 4 To do so, it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria. 5 He then came into a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the property that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was also there. Since Jesus was worn out from the journey, He sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman came out from Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me to drink,” 8 for his disciples had gone into the city to buy food. 9 Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Judean, ask me for a drink, since I am a woman and a Samaritan?” Indeed, Judeans did not associate with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who is asking you, ‘Give me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where, then, would you get living water? 12 You are not greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself with his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again. 14 Whoever drinks out from the water that I will give him, however, will never thirst in this age, but the water that I will give him will become inside of him a spring of water bubbling up into age-unfolding life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I might never thirst again, nor come here to draw water.”

16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and return here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have spoken rightly when you said that you do not have a husband. 18 For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you have truly spoken.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.

21 Jesus said to her, “Believe Me, ma’am, that the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know; for salvation is out from the Judeans. 23 But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers will worship [kiss] the Father inside of Spirit and truth; indeed, the Father also searches with great desire for such to worship [kiss] Him. 24 God is Spirit, and it is necessary that those worshipping Him, should worship [kiss] inside of Spirit and truth. 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will tell us everything.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am the One speaking to you.”

27 At that moment His disciples came and were astonished that He was speaking with a woman. No one said, however, “What do you seek?” Or, “Why do you speak with her?” 28 The woman then left her water pot, went back into the city, and said to the people there, 23 “Come, see a man who told me everything I have done. Can it be that this is the Christ?” 30 They went out from the city and came towards Jesus.

31 In the meantime, the disciples were asking Him, “Teacher, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know.” 33 For that reason, the disciples said to one another, “Did someone bring Him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the desire of the One who sent Me, and to complete His work. 35 Do you not say that it is yet four months before the harvest comes? Look and see! I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvest already. 36 The one who reaps receives his wages, and gathers together fruit into age-unfolding life. Then the one who sows will rejoice together with the one who reaps. 37 Indeed, the saying is true, “one is sowing and another reaping.” 38 I sent you to reap what you did not toil for; others have toiled, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many of the Samaritans from that city then believed into Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 Then, when the Samaritans came towards Him, they asked him to remain with them, and He stayed there for two days. 41 And many more believed through His word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of your speech that we believe; we ourselves have indeed heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world-cosmos.

43 Then, after two days, He went out from there into Galilee. 44 Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own hometown. 45 But when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem during the feast; for they had also gone to the feast.

46 Then Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee where He had made the water into wine, where there was a certain royal official, whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 Because he had heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come and heal his son; for he was about to die. 48 Jesus then said to him, “If you do not see signs and wonders, will you not believe?” 49 The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus said and went away.

51 His servants were then already coming to meet him and said, “Your son lives.” 52 He asked them what hour was it that he had become better. They said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father then realized that it was that very hour in which Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he believed, with his entire household. 54 This was again the second sign that Jesus did, after coming out from Judea into Galilee.


5:1 After these things, there was a feast of the Judeans, so Jesus went up into Jerusalem.  2 There was in Jerusalem a pool at the Sheep Gate, called Bethesda in the Aramaic dialect of Hebrew, having five porches. 3 In these porches were lying a multitude of those ailing, the blind, lame, and paralyzed, awaiting with anticipation the moving of the water. 4 Indeed, on occasion an angel came down into the pool and stirred the water. The first one who entered the pool, then, after the stirring of the water, was made whole from whatever disease had gripped him at the time.

5 There was a certain man there, who had been an invalid himself for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus him lying there, knowing that he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you desire to become whole?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. When I try to go, another gets there first.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise up, pick up your mat, and walk around.” 9 And immediately, the man became whole, took up his mat, and walked.

It was, however, the Sabbath that day. 10 For that reason, the Judeans said to the man who was healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your mat.” 11 He then answered them, “The One who made me whole, He said to me, “Pick up your mat and walk around.” 12 They asked him therefore, “Who is the man who said to you, “Pick up and walk?” 13 The man who was now whole did not know who it was, however, for Jesus had withdrawn because of the crowd in that place.

14 After these things, Jesus found the same man in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become whole; don’t miss the mark anymore so that something worse does not happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told that Judeans that Jesus was the one who had made him whole.

16 Because of this, the Judeans persecuted Jesus, because of the things He did on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 For this reason, then, the Judeans sought even more to kill Him. Not only did He annul the Sabbath, but He also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.

19 Then Jesus answered them, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, “The Son is able to do nothing of Himself, except what He perceives the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, these things the Son does also. 20 Indeed, Father loves the Son, and shows Him all that He Himself does; and greater works then these, He will show Him, so that you might marvel. 21 For just exactly as the Father awakens and gives life to the dead, in this same way, the Son also gives life to whomever He desires. 22 Indeed, the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all might value and honor the Son, even as they value and honor the Father. He who is not valuing the Son, is not valuing the Father who sent Him.

24 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the one who continually hears My word and believes the One who sent Me, possesses age-unfolding life and does not come into judgement, but has already and completely changed place out from death and into life. 25 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 Indeed, just as the Father possesses life inside of Himself, so also He gave to the Son to possess life inside of Himself, 27 and He gave to Him authority to execute judgement, because He is the Son of man [that is, a human]. {God gave authority over all things to Adam and cannot remove that authority. Jesus is given the same authority because He is human.}

28 Do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear His voice, 29 and will come forth, those having done good into the resurrection of life, but those having done evil into the resurrection of judgment. 30 I am not able of Myself to do anything; even as I hear, so I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek my own desire, but the desire of the One who sent Me.

31 If I were to give witness concerning Myself, My testimony would not be true. 32 It is another who gives witness concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he gives concerning Me is true. 33 You have gone to John, and he has given witness to the truth. 34 Now, I do not receive human testimony, but I say these things that you might be saved. 35 John was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.

36 I have a greater testimony than that of John, however. For the works that the Father has given me to complete, these same works which I do also give witness concerning Me, that the Father has sent Me. 37 And the One who sent Me, the Father Himself, has given witness concerning Me. But you have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 38 And His word you do not have remaining inside of you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. 39 You diligently search the Scriptures, for you imagine that you will discover age-unfolding life in them. Yet the Scriptures also give witness concerning Me, 40 but you have no desire to come towards Me, that you might possess life.

41 I do not receive glory from humans; 42 but I have known you, that you do not have the love of God inside yourselves. 43 I have come inside the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another should come in his own name, you would receive him. 44 How are you able to believe, when you are receiving glory from one another, but the glory that is from the One God, you do not seek?

45 Do not imagine that I will prosecute you towards the Father. There is one prosecuting you, Moses into whom you have hoped. 46 But if you had believed Moses, you would have believed Me, for he wrote concerning Me. 47 If you do not then believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”