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The prophets wrote many things about the time when God will punish his people. The time I am talking about is when all these things must happen.

Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke off some pieces, gave them to the apostles and said, "This bread is my body that I am giving for you. Eat this to remember me."

But Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, I am ready to go to jail with you. I will even die with you!"

Jesus spoke to the group that came to arrest him. They were the leading priests, the older Jewish leaders, and the Jewish soldiers. He said to them, "Why did you come out here with swords and clubs? Do you think I am a criminal?

A short time later, someone else saw Peter and said, "You are also one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

They said, "If you are the Messiah, then tell us that you are." Jesus said to them, "If I tell you I am the Messiah, you will not believe me.

They all said, "Then are you the Son of God?" Jesus said to them, "You are right in saying that I am."

John told people about him. He said loudly, "This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘The one who is coming after me is greater than I am, because he was living before I was even born.'"

Without any hesitation he said openly and plainly, "I am not the Messiah."

They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He answered, "No, I am not Elijah." They asked, "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No, I am not the Prophet."

John told them the words of the prophet Isaiah: "I am the voice of someone shouting in the desert: ‘Make a straight road ready for the Lord.'"

He is the one who is coming later. I am not good enough to be the slave who unties the strings on his sandals."

This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘There is a man coming after me who is greater than I am, because he was living even before I was born.'

You yourselves heard me say, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only the one God sent to prepare the way for him.'

The bride always belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who helps the bridegroom just waits and listens. He is happy just to hear the bridegroom talk. That's how I feel now. I am so happy that he is here.

The woman answered, "I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!" (Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered, "You don't know what God can give you. And you don't know who I am, the one who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water."

Then Jesus said, "He is talking to you now—I am the Messiah."

"I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told. And my judgment is right, because I am not trying to please myself. I want only to please the one who sent me.

Then Jesus said, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.