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And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed Jesus.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he tells you to do, do it."

This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."

But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.

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

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

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.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.

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.

After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea; and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.

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