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He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony;

he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

So he came to a city of Samar'ia, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"

Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

And many more believed because of his word.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way.

As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.

The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself believed, and all his household.

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.

This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise.

Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice