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John spoke about him. He cried out, "This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘He comes after me, but he is greater than I am, because he existed before I was born.'"

God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John did not refuse to answer, but spoke out openly and clearly, saying: "I am not the Messiah."

John answered, "I baptize with water, but among you stands the one you do not know.

He is coming after me, but I am not good enough even to untie his sandals."

This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘A man is coming after me, but he is greater than I am, because he existed before I was born.'

I did not know who he would be, but I came baptizing with water in order to make him known to the people of Israel."

I still did not know that he was the one, but God, who sent me to baptize with water, had said to me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and stay on a man; he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Then he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon son of John, but you will be called Cephas." (This is the same as Peter and means "a rock.")

which now had turned into wine, and he tasted it. He did not know where this wine had come from (but, of course, the servants who had drawn out the water knew); so he called the bridegroom

and said to him, "Everyone else serves the best wine first, and after the guests have drunk a lot, he serves the ordinary wine. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

But the temple Jesus was speaking about was his body.

But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew them all.

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.

The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.