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"Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

"For in this case the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.'

"I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have come into their labor."

and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is the Savior of the world."

And after the two days, He departed from there for Galilee.

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

So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

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

Now a man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, "It is a Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath.

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way.

"For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

"For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

"For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

"Do not be amazed at this; for a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,