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Everyone will hate you because of me.

When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort.

But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.

And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, "This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'")

This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that."

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized.

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

And because of his words many more became believers.

They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,

and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick.

Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.