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And so Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for previously, they had been enemies toward each other.

And so Pilate decided to have their demand carried out.

"And so some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see."

And so they strongly urged Him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.

and He said to them, "So it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

And so they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

"And I did not recognize Him, but so that He would be revealed to Israel, I came baptizing in water."

He said to them, "Come, and you will see." So they came and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day; it was about the tenth hour.

Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

"The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."

"And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

so that everyone who believes will have eternal life in Him.

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

"But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God."

"He who has the bride is the groom; but the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly because of the groom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.