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children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
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And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
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“Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
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And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).
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Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”
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He then added, “Very truly I tell you, you will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on’ the Son of Man.”
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In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
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His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
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Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
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Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
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But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
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Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
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I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
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This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
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Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized.
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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
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When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
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Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
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but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
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“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
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The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
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Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
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“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
