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So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household believed.

and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."

So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do.