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It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom's friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.

Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true.

The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands.

(though Jesus himself didn't baptize them—his disciples did).

Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.

And besides, do you think you're greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?"

Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, "What do you want with her?" or "Why are you talking to her?"

Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.

long enough for many more to hear his message and believe.

He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown.

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

While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well.

He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, "Yesterday afternoon at one o'clock his fever suddenly disappeared!"

Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." And he and his entire household believed in Jesus.

Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,

So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.

In fact, you sent investigators to listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about me was true.

John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited for a while about his message.