Jesus Christ

⁹ The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

¹¹ He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

¹² But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

¹³ children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹² Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹³ So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”

¹⁴ Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.

⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.”

⁵ “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

⁷ If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

¹⁰ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

⁷ Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

⁷ But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

⁸ More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

⁹ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

¹⁰ I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

¹¹ and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

¹³ He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁶ For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

¹⁸ And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

²³ I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

²⁴ I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

² But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

⁴ So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.

⁵ For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

⁶ And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

³² Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

³³ For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

³⁵ Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

³⁶ But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

³⁷ Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

⁴⁶ not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

²¹ To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² He was with God in the beginning.

³ Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

⁴ In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

⁵ The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

⁷ So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

⁸ All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

⁹ I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹³ When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

¹⁴ They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

¹⁵ “But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

²⁷ Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”

²⁸ Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!”

⁷ And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

⁸ I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

⁹ In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

¹⁰ As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.

¹¹ And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

¹¹ He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

²⁵ The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

³⁴ “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

²¹ When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

²² and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

And a voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, whom I have chosen. Listen to Him!”

²² All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

²³ Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.

²⁴ For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

²¹ She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

²² All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

²³ “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

²⁴ When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.

²⁵ But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.

And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

²⁷ The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

²⁸ When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

²⁹ “What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”

¹⁸ “Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

¹⁹ He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the streets.

²⁰ A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.

Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”

There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came to Him, grasped His feet, and worshiped Him.