Daily Text and Bible Reading: Sunday, November 10 [Press play below]

1.1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
1.2 This one was in the beginning with God.
1.3 All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence. What has come into existence
1.4 by means of him was life, and the life was the light of men.
1.5 And the light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness has not overpowered it.
1.6 There came a man who was sent as a representative of God; his name was John.
1.7 This man came as a witness, in order to bear witness about the light, so that people of all sorts might believe through him.
1.8 He was not that light, but he was meant to bear witness about that light.
1.9 The true light that gives light to every sort of man was about to come into the world.
1.10 He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him.
1.11 He came to his own home, but his own people did not accept him.
1.12 However, to all who did receive him, he gave authority to become God’s children, because they were exercising faith in his name.
1.13 And they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man’s will, but from God.
1.14 So the Word became flesh and resided among us, and we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father; and he was full of divine favor and truth.
1.15 (John bore witness about him, yes, he cried out: “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming behind me has advanced in front of me, for he existed before me.’”)
1.16 For we all received from his fullness, even undeserved kindness upon undeserved kindness.
1.17 Because the Law was given through Moses, the undeserved kindness and the truth came to be through Jesus Christ.
1.18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is at the Father’s side is the one who has explained Him.
1.19 This is the witness John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: “Who are you?”
1.20 And he admitted it and did not deny it, saying: “I am not the Christ.”
1.21 And they asked him: “What, then? Are you Elijah?” He replied: “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered: “No!”
1.22 So they said to him: “Who are you? Tell us so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
1.23 He said: “I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make the way of Jehovah straight,’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”
1.24 Now those sent were from the Pharisees.
1.25 So they questioned him and said to him: “Why, then, do you baptize if you are not the Christ or Elijah or the Prophet?”
1.26 John answered them: “I baptize in water. One is standing among you whom you do not know,
1.27 the one coming behind me, the lace of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
1.28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1.29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said: “See, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
1.30 This is the one about whom I said: ‘Behind me there comes a man who has advanced in front of me, for he existed before me.’
1.31 Even I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing in water was so that he might be made manifest to Israel.”
1.32 John also bore witness, saying: “I viewed the spirit coming down as a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon him.
1.33 Even I did not know him, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me: ‘Whoever it is upon whom you see the spirit coming down and remaining, this is the one who baptizes in holy spirit.’
1.34 And I have seen it, and I have given witness that this one is the Son of God.”
1.35 Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
1.36 and as he looked at Jesus walking, he said: “See, the Lamb of God!”
1.37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
1.38 Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, he said to them: “What are you looking for?” They said to him: “Rabbi (which means, when translated, “Teacher”), where are you staying?”
1.39 He said to them: “Come, and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day; it was about the tenth hour.
1.40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard what John said and followed Jesus.
1.41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him: “We have found the Messiah” (which means, when translated, “Christ”),
1.42 and he led him to Jesus. When Jesus looked at him, he said: “You are Simon, the son of John; you will be called Cephas” (which is translated “Peter”).
1.43 The next day he wanted to leave for Galilee. Jesus then found Philip and said to him: “Be my follower.”
1.44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter.
1.45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him: “We have found the one of whom Moses, in the Law, and the Prophets wrote: Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”
1.46 But Nathanael said to him: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him: “Come and see.”
1.47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him: “See, truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
1.48 Nathanael said to him: “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him: “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
1.49 Nathanael responded: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel.”
1.50 Jesus answered him: “Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see things greater than these.”
1.51 He then said to him: “Most truly I say to you men, you will see heaven opened up and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of man.”
2.1 And on the third day a marriage feast took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2.2 Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast.
2.3 When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him: “They have no wine.”
2.4 But Jesus said to her: “Woman, why is that of concern to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”
2.5 His mother said to those serving: “Do whatever he tells you.”
2.6 Now there were six stone water jars sitting there as required by the purification rules of the Jews, each able to hold two or three liquid measures.
2.7 Jesus said to them: “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.
2.8 Then he said to them: “Now draw some out and take it to the director of the feast.” So they took it.
2.9 When the director of the feast tasted the water that had now been turned into wine, not knowing where it came from (although the servants who had drawn out the water knew), the director of the feast called the bridegroom
2.10 and said to him: “Everyone else puts out the fine wine first, and when people are intoxicated, the inferior. You have saved the fine wine until now.”
2.11 Jesus did this in Cana of Galilee as the beginning of his signs, and he made his glory manifest, and his disciples put their faith in him.
2.12 After this he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples went down to Capernaum, but they did not stay there many days.
2.13 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2.14 He found in the temple those selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money brokers in their seats.
2.15 So after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
2.16 And he said to those selling the doves: “Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of commerce!”
2.17 His disciples recalled that it is written: “The zeal for your house will consume me.”
2.18 Therefore, in response the Jews said to him: “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
2.19 Jesus replied to them: “Tear down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
2.20 The Jews then said: “This temple was built in 46 years, and will you raise it up in three days?”
2.21 But he was talking about the temple of his body.
2.22 When, though, he was raised up from the dead, his disciples recalled that he used to say this, and they believed the scripture and what Jesus had spoken.
2.23 However, when he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the Passover, many people put their faith in his name when they saw the signs that he was performing.
2.24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them because he knew them all
2.25 and because he did not need to have anyone bear witness about man, for he knew what was in man.
3.1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
3.2 This one came to him in the night and said to him: “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can perform these signs that you perform unless God is with him.”
3.3 In response Jesus said to him: “Most truly I say to you, unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
3.4 Nicodemus said to him: “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter into the womb of his mother a second time and be born, can he?”
3.5 Jesus answered: “Most truly I say to you, unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
3.6 What has been born from the flesh is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit is spirit.
3.7 Do not be amazed because I told you: You people must be born again.
3.8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who has been born from the spirit.”
3.9 In answer Nicodemus said to him: “How can these things be?”
3.10 Jesus replied: “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet do not know these things?
3.11 Most truly I say to you, what we know we speak, and what we have seen we bear witness to, but you do not receive the witness we give.
3.12 If I have told you earthly things and you still do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
3.13 Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but the one who descended from heaven, the Son of man.
3.14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up,
3.15 so that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.
3.16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.
3.17 For God did not send his Son into the world for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him.
3.18 Whoever exercises faith in him is not to be judged. Whoever does not exercise faith has been judged already, because he has not exercised faith in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
3.19 Now this is the basis for judgment: that the light has come into the world, but men have loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
3.20 For whoever practices vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be reproved.
3.21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that his works may be made manifest as having been done in harmony with God.”
3.22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and there he spent some time with them and was baptizing.
3.23 But John too was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was a great quantity of water there, and people kept coming and were being baptized;
3.24 for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
3.25 Now the disciples of John had a dispute with a Jew concerning purification.
3.26 So they came to John and said to him: “Rabbi, the man who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you bore witness, see, this one is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
3.27 In answer John said: “A man cannot receive a single thing unless it has been given him from heaven.
3.28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of that one.’
3.29 Whoever has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, when he stands and hears him, has a great deal of joy on account of the voice of the bridegroom. So my joy has been made complete.
3.30 That one must keep on increasing, but I must keep on decreasing.”
3.31 The one who comes from above is over all others. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks of things of the earth. The one who comes from heaven is over all others.
3.32 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, but no man accepts his witness.
3.33 Whoever has accepted his witness has put his seal to it that God is true.
3.34 For the one whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for He does not give the spirit sparingly.
3.35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
3.36 The one who exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; the one who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.