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In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

(His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)

It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?"

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

Many more believed because of his message,

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die.

On his way home his servants met him with the news, "Your boy is going to live!"

He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, "It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him."

Then the father remembered that it was at that very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he and all his family believed.

Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started walking. The day this happened was a Sabbath,

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.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge,

Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life.

Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice

John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light.

And the Father, who sent me, also testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his face,

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick.