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but He said to them, "Why such alarm? And why are there such questionings in your minds?

But, while they still could not believe it for joy and were full of astonishment, He asked them, "Have you any food here?"

And remember that I am about to send out my Father's promised gift to rest upon you. But, as for you, wait patiently in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give testimony concerning the Light.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

He avowed--he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am not the Christ."

"I baptize in water only," John answered, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not know--

I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to Israel is the reason why I have come baptizing in water."

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "`The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior. But you have kept the good wine till now."

But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew them all,

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

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

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, `I am not the Christ,' but `I am His appointed forerunner.'