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People will faint with fear and apprehension because of the things that are to come on the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.Matthew 24:29;">[xr]

Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, because he had been wanting to see him for a long time on account of what he had heard about him. He was also hoping to see some sign done by him.Matthew 14:1; Mark 6:14; Luke 9:9;">[xr]

because the sun had stopped shining. And the curtain[fn] in the sanctuary was torn in two.Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38;">[xr]

Because the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the menthey">[fn] asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, 'The one who comes after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; John 1:32; 5:33; 8:58; Colossians 1:17;">[xr]

This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.'John 1:15,27;">[xr]

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

While Jesushe">[fn] was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.John 5:24; 20:31;">[xr]

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.John 1:4,9-11; 8:12;">[xr]

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. PeopleThey">[fn] kept coming and were being baptized,1 Samuel 9:4; Matthew 3:5-6;">[xr]

For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because Godhe">[fn] does not give the Spirit in limited measure.John 1:16; 7:16;">[xr]

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesusin him">[fn] because of the woman's testimony when she testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."John 4:29;">[xr]

And many more believed because of his word.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."John 17:8; 1 John 4:14;">[xr]

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival. For they, too, had gone to the festival.Deuteronomy 16:16; John 2:23; 3:2;">[xr]

So the Jews[fn] began persecuting Jesus because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

So the Jews[fn] were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal to God.John 7:19; Philippians 2:6;">[xr]

And he has given him authority to pass judgment, because he is the Son of Man.Daniel 7:13-14; John 5:22; Acts 10:42; 17:31;">[xr]