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“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
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“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
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“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
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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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The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
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How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”
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“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
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They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’ ?”
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Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
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However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.
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The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
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Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
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They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
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“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
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Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
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Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
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“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
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But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”
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Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
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To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
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The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
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When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
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Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
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So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”
