29The next day John seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, 30This is he of whom I spake, After me cometh a man who was before me: for before me he existed. 31And I knew him not: though that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore am I come baptising with water. 32And John bore witness, saying, I saw the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it rested upon him. 33And I did not know him: but he that sent me baptising with water, he said to me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending as a dove, and resting upon him, that is he who baptiseth with the Holy Ghost. 34And I have seen it, and have borne testimony that this is the Son of God.
35On the morrow John was again standing with two of his disciples; 36and looking upon Jesus as he walked by, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! 37And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 38Then Jesus turned about, and seeing them following, saith to them, What are ye seeking? They said unto him, Rabbi (which signifies, when translated, Master), where is thy abode? 39He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he abode, and continued with him that day: and it was about the tenth hour.
40One of the two, who had heard from John mention of Jesus, and had followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41He first finds his own brother Simon, and saith to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being translated, the Christ). 42And he brought him to Jesus. Then Jesus looking on him, said, Thou art Simon the son of Jonas: thou shalt be called Cephas, which, interpreted in Greek, is Petros, a Rock.
43The next day Jesus resolved to go into Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, Follow me. 44Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45Philip findeth Nathaniel, and saith to him, We have found him whom Moses in the law has described, and the prophets, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is of Nazareth. 46And Nathaniel said to him, Can any thing good come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, Come and see. 47Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite in reality, in whom there is no guile! 48Nathaniel saith unto him, From whence canst thou know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. 49Nathaniel answered and said to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the king of Israel. 50Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, dost thou believe? thou shalt see greater things than these. 51And he saith to him, Verily, verily, I tell you, From henceforth ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
[CHAP. II.]
AND on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2So Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage. 3And the wine being exhausted, the mother of Jesus saith to him, They have no more wine. 4Jesus saith unto her, What is that to me and thee, woman? my hour is not yet come. 5His mother saith to the waiters, Whatsoever he orders you, do it. 6Now there stood there six large stone jars, for the customary purifying ablution of the Jews, containing two or three baths each. 7Jesus saith to them, Fill these jars with water. And they filled them to the brim. 8And he said unto them, Draw out now, and carry to the president of the table. So they carried it. 9And when the president of the table had tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it came: (but the waiters knew, who drew the water;) the president of the table called the bridegroom, 10and saith to him, Every man at first produces the good wine; and after men have drunk plentifully, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept back the good wine until now. 11This beginning of miracles Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and displayed his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
12After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and he continued there not many days. 13And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14And he found in the temple those who sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the moneychangers seated: 15and having made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and scattered the money of the exchangers, and overturned the tables; 16and said to those who sold doves, Take these hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. 17Then the disciples remembered that it was written, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.” 18The Jews then addressed him, and said to him, What miracle shewest thou, seeing thou actest thus? 19Jesus answered and said to them, Pull down this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again. 20Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days? 21Now he had spoken with reference to the temple of his own body. 22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had spoken thus unto them; and they believed the scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken.
23Now while he was at Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, when they beheld the miracles which he did. 24But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew them all, 25and because he had no need that any man should testify respecting man; for he knew what was in man.
[CHAP. III.]
NOW there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2this man came to Jesus in the night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles which thou dost, unless God be with him. 3Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4Nicodemus saith unto 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 replied, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the sound of it, but knowest not from whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth: just so is every one who is born of the Spirit. 9Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11Verily, verity, I tell thee, That what we know we speak, and what we have seen we affirm; and ye receive not our testimony. 12If I have told you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how will you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 13Though no man hath ascended into heaven, except he that descended from heaven, that Son of man the I am in heaven. 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, in like manner must the Son of man be lifted up: 15that every one who believeth on him may not perish, but have life eternal. 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him should not perish, but have life eternal. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world by him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is already under condemnation, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19Now this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20For every one whose practices are foul hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his actions may not be brought to conviction. 21But he who practices the truth, cometh to the light, that his actions may be evident, as being done for God.