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But they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, "I am not the Messiah."

I myself did not know him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel."

I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now."

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

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

"Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

He must increase, but I must decrease."

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God's wrath.

—although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized—

But he had to go through Samaria.