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John answered, "No one can have anything unless God gives it.

But whoever accepts his message confirms by this that God is truthful.

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

Jesus answered, "If you only knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water."

"My Samaritan ancestors worshiped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God."

God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is."

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.

I am telling you the truth: the time is coming—the time has already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will come to life.

"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.

But I know what kind of people you are, and I know that you have no love for God in your hearts.

You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?

Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted.

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."

So they asked him, "What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?"

Jesus answered, "What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent."

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

The prophets wrote, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.' Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.

This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father.

And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God."

Jesus answered, "What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.