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This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.

After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

His disciples remembered that it was written: "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."

But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name as they observed His signs which He was doing.

But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, because He knew all people,

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

"But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God."

After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He was spending time with them and baptizing.

"What He has seen and heard, of this He testifies; and no one accepts His testimony.

"The one who has accepted His testimony has certified that God is true.

"The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to His hand.

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His disciples were),

So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

For His disciples had gone away to the city to buy food.

"You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?"