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"You are a Jew," she replied, "and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?"

Jesus answered, "You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life."

Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?"

They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.

Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be healed?"

They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said that God was his Father, which made him equal with God.

Jesus told the people: I tell you for certain that the Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing, and he does exactly what he sees the Father do.

I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.

I tell you for certain that the time will come, and it is already here, when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen to it will live!

If I speak for myself, there is no way to prove I am telling the truth.

But there is someone else who speaks for me, and I know what he says is true.

John was a lamp that gave a lot of light, and you were glad to enjoy his light for a while.

But something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me.

The Father who sent me also speaks for me, but you have never heard his voice or seen him face to face.

but you refuse to come to me for eternal life.

It was almost time for the Jewish festival of Passover, and Jesus went up on a mountain with his disciples and sat down.

Philip answered, "Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?"