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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.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

John also was baptizing in Aenon, not far from Salim, because there was plenty of water in that place. People were going to him, and he was baptizing them.

The one whom God has sent speaks God's words, because God gives him the fullness of his Spirit.

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, "He told me everything I have ever done."

Many more believed because of his message,

and they told the woman, "We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.

So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.

And he has given the Son the right to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

"I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!

If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.

A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick.

Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

The people started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.