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Because he was full of grace and truth, from him we all received one gift after another.

This is the One I was talking about when I said, ‘A man will come after me, but he is greater than I am, because he was living before me.'

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

When Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast, many people believed in him because they saw the miracles he did.

But Jesus did not believe in them because he knew them all.

He did not need anyone to tell him about people, because he knew what was in people's minds.

One night Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, "Teacher, we know you are a teacher sent from God, because no one can do the miracles you do unless God is with him."

People who believe in God's Son are not judged guilty. Those who do not believe have already been judged guilty, because they have not believed in God's one and only Son.

They are judged by this fact: The Light has come into the world, but they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things.

All who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light, because it will show all the evil things they do.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were going there to be baptized.

The One whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God gives him the Spirit fully.

You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because of what the woman said: "He told me everything I ever did."

And many more believed because of the things he said.

They said to the woman, "First we believed in Jesus because of what you said, but now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

When Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Passover Feast in Jerusalem, because they had been there, too.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum and heal his son, because his son was almost dead.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, because there were many people in that place, and Jesus had left.

Because Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day, some evil people began to persecute him.