Lexicon :: Strong's G2258 - ēn

He was with God in the beginning.

In him was life,[fn] and that life was the light of men.

He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.[fn]

He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.

(John testified concerning him and exclaimed, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”)

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

All this happened in Bethany[fn] across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

“This is the one I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’

“Come and you’ll see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.[fn]

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.[fn]

The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.

and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

“This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing ​— ​and everyone is going to him.”

He went again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

“John[fn] was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat.[fn] They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone off alone.

“Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit[fn] had not yet been given[fn] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

“Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring[fn] and from the town of Bethlehem, where David lived? ”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs? ” And there was a division among them.

The Jews did not believe this about him ​— ​that he was blind and received sight ​— ​until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

“If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.