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The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples,

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated Anointed).

Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.

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

"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.

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he spent some time there with them and baptized.

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified this, that God is true.

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.

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

So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)