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Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them and baptized.

And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true.

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

(though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),

So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by 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, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?"

In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

And many more believed because of His own word.

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

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.