Study Desk

The Word became a human and lived among us. We saw his glory—the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father—and he was full of grace and truth.

He is the One who comes after me. I am not good enough to untie the strings of his sandals."

The next day John was there again with two of his followers.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Messiah." ("Messiah" means "Christ.")

and Jesus and his followers were also invited to the wedding.

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you to do."

So in Cana of Galilee Jesus did his first miracle. There he showed his glory, and his followers believed in him.

After this, Jesus went to the town of Capernaum with his mother, brothers, and followers. They stayed there for just a few days.

Some of his people said to Jesus, "Show us a miracle to prove you have the right to do these things."

(But the temple Jesus meant was his own body.

After Jesus was raised from the dead, his followers remembered that Jesus had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the words Jesus had said.)

Nicodemus said, "But if a person is already old, how can he be born again? He cannot enter his mother's womb again. So how can a person be born a second time?"

"God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.

God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.

After this, Jesus and his followers went into the area of Judea, where he stayed with his followers and baptized people.

although Jesus himself did not baptize people, but his followers did.

In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar, which is near the field Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there. Jesus was tired from his long trip, so he sat down beside the well. It was about twelve o'clock noon.

Are you greater than Jacob, our father, who gave us this well and drank from it himself along with his sons and flocks?"

Just then his followers came back from town and were surprised to see him talking with a woman. But none of them asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"