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This, the first of Yeshua's miraculous signs, he did at Kanah in the Galil; he manifested his glory, and his talmidim came to trust in him.

Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K'far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.

(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, "Zeal for your house will devour me." )

But the "temple" he had spoken of was his body.

Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.

Now while Yeshua was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach festival, there were many people who "believed in his name" when they saw the miracles he performed.

Nakdimon said to him, "How can a grown man be ‘born'? Can he go back into his mother's womb and be born a second time?"

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.

For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won't be exposed.

But everyone who does what is true comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God."

After this, Yeshua and his talmidim went out into the countryside of Y'hudah, where he stayed awhile with them and immersed people.

Whoever does accept what he says puts his seal on the fact that God is true,

the Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

(although it was not Yeshua himself who immersed but his talmidim),

He came to a town in Shomron called Sh'khem, near the field Ya‘akov had given to his son Yosef.

Ya‘akov's Well was there; so Yeshua, exhausted from his travel, sat down by the well; it was about noon.

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

You aren't greater than our father Ya‘akov, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it, and so did his sons and his cattle."

Just then, his talmidim arrived. They were amazed that he was talking with a woman; but none of them said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

Yeshua said to them, "My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.