VERSES FROM
THE BOOK OF JOHN

 
FAVORITE VERSES

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

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. -- 1:12

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. -- 1:14

The Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. -- 1:17

The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" -- 1:29

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. -- 3:3

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. -- 3:16

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. -- 3:36

Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. 
-- 4:13-14

Salvation is from the Jews. -- 4:22

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. -- 4:24

My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. -- 4:34

A prophet has no honor in his own country. -- 4:44

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
-- 5:17-24

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. -- 5:39-40

If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?
-- 5:46-47

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.
-- 6:27

I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. -- 6:35

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. -- 6:44

The bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh. -- 6:51

The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. - 6:63

For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.  You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come. 
-- 7:33-34

If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.  He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, "From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." -- 7:38

Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks. -- 7:46

He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone. -- 8:7

I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life. -- 8:12

If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. -- 8:31-32

If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. -- 8:36

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." -- 8:58

We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.  While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world. -- 9:4-5

Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep ... I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. -- 10:7,9

I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. -- 10:11

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. -- 10:27

I and the Father are one. -- 10:30

I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. 
-- 11:25-26

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. -- 12:24

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. -- 12:25

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself. -- 12:32
 

Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. -- 13:16

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. -- 13:17

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. -- 13:34

By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. -- 13:35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
-- 13:34-35

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. -- 14:6

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. -- 14:12

Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. -- 14:13

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. -- 14:15

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. -- 14:27

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. -- 15:5

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. -- 15:7

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. -- 15:11

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. -- 15:12

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. -- 15:13

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. -- 16:33

This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
-- 17:3

I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. -- 17:15

Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one. -- 18:9

My kingdom is not of this world. 
-- 18:36

Pilate said to Him, «What is truth?»
-- 18:38

Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed." -- 20:29

These have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. -- 20:31

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. -- 21:25

 


 
 
FAVORITE PASSAGES
 

THE WORD

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.  In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.  The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. -- 1:1-5
 


CHILDREN OF GOD

He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.  And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. -- 1:11-14
 


JOHN THE BAPTIZER

He said, "I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."  ... They asked him, and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"  John answered them saying, "I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.  It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." -- 1:23-27

The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" -- 1:29

I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God. -- 1:34
 


YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

"Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."
Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"  Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'  The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." -- 3:2-8
 


THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.  For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.  For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.  He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has
not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. -- 3:14-19
 


THE WOMAN AT THE WELL

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.  Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I
am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)  Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."  She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?  You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?"  Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will
become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."  The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.  ...  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."  Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.  But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.  God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."  The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us."  Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." -- 4:7-26
 


THE WORK OF GOD

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.  Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.  Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.  For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'  I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor." -- 4:34-38
 


THE WORK OF THE FATHER

He answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."  For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.  Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.  For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.  For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.  Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life." -- 5:17-24
 


THE BREAD OF LIFE

Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.  For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."  Then they said to Him, "Lord, always give us this bread."  Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me
will never thirst.  But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.  All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.  This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.  For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day." -- 6:32-40
 


THE LIVING BREAD

I am the bread of life.  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.  This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh. -- 6:48-51
 


PETER'S TESTIMONY

Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"  Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.  We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God." -- 6:67-69
 


THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.  He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"  But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive. -- 7:37-39
 


I AM

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."  So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"  Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." -- 8:56-58
 


OPENING BLIND EYES

Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.  We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.  Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.  If this man were not from God, He could do nothing. -- 9:30-33
 


THE DOOR/THE GOOD SHEPHERD

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.  But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. -- 10:1-3

Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.  All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.  I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.  I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. -- 10:7-11

I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.  I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. -- 10:14-16

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.  I and the Father are one. -- 10:27-30
 

WALK IN THE LIGHT

Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.  But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. -- 11:9-10
 

ONE MAN TO DIE FOR ALL

The chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, "What are we doing?  For this man is performing many signs.  If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."  But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."  Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. -- 11:47-52
 

WALK IN THE LIGHT

For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.  While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light. -- 12:35-36
 

MY FATHER'S HOUSE

"Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.  And you know the way where I am going."  Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?"
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." -- 14:1-6
 

ANOTHER HELPER

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.  Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.  If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.  I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. -- 14:12-17

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. -- 14:26
 


THE TRUE VINE

I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.  You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.  Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.  I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.  If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. -- 15:1-7
 

CHOSEN BY GOD

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. -- 15:16
 

THE HELPER

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.  And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. -- 16:7-11

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. -- 16:13
 

THE CRUCIFIXION

They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.  There they crucified Him. -- 19:17-18

Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. -- 19:30
 

DOUBTING THOMAS

But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." -- 20:25

Then He said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."  Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"  Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed." -- 20:27-29
 

DO YOU LOVE ME?

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me
more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Tend My lambs."  He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Shepherd My sheep."  He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know
that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Tend My sheep." -- 21:15-17
 
 

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. -- 21:25
 
 


 
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