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John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
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They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
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Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
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“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
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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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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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Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
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The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
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So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
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He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
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Jesus the Bread of Life
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
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Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
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So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
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“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
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Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
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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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Division Over Who Jesus Is
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
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Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
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Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
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Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,
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Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
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Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
