John:3:22-36

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* After this , Jesus and his disciples came into the country of Judea . Jesus stayed there with them and baptized people . * John was also baptizing people in the river at Aenon , near the town of Salim . There was much water . People came to him and were baptized . * This was before John was put in prison . * Johns disciples and the leaders of the Jews were talking about how to be clean , the way God wants us to be clean . * They came to John and said , Teacher , there was a man with you on the other side of the Jordan River . You were telling people about him . Now he himself is baptizing and all the people are going to him . * John answered , A man cannot get anything unless God in heaven gives it to him . * You yourselves heard what I said . I am not the Christ but I have been sent ahead of the Christ . * The wife belongs to the man who has married her . The mans best friend may stand and listen . And when he hears what that man says , he is very glad for him . So what I hear makes me very glad in the same way . * He must become more and more great , but I must become less and less great . * The one who comes from heaven is greater than all other people . The one who is of the earth talks about things on earth . So the one who comes from heaven is greater than all . * He tells what he has seen and heard , but no one wants to believe what he says . * If a person believes what the one from heaven says , then he also says God is true . * The one God sent speaks the words of God . God does not give him the Spirit little by little , but he gives the Spirit in full . * The Father loves his Son and has put everything in his hand . * He who believes in the Son will live for ever . He who does not believe in the Son will not live . God will be very angry with him for ever .

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