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"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

He answered by saying, "And who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?"

And many believed in Him there.

"But if anyone walks during the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.

"If we let Him go on like this, all the people will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take over both our place and our nation."

But though He had performed so many signs in their sight, they still were not believing in Him.

Nevertheless many, even of the rulers, believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, so that they would not be excommunicated from the synagogue;

Now Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in Me, does not believe only in Me, but also in Him who sent Me.

Therefore when he had left, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;

if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.

"I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

"All the prophets testify of Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins."

for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His descendants.'

Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus."

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

just as it is written: "BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME."

For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME."