John:3-4
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There was a man of the Pharisees ,
named Nicodemus ,
a ruler of the Jews :
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The same came to Jesus by night ,
and said unto him ,
Rabbi ,
we know that thou art a teacher come from God :
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest ,
except God be with him .
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Jesus answered and said unto him ,
Verily ,
verily ,
I say unto thee ,
Except a man be born again ,
he cannot see the kingdom of God .
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Nicodemus saith unto him ,
How can a man be born when he is old ?
can he enter the second time into his mother '
s womb ,
and be born ?
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Jesus answered ,
Verily ,
verily ,
I say unto thee ,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit ,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God .
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh ;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit .
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Marvel not that I said unto thee ,
Ye must be born again .
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The wind bloweth where it listeth ,
and thou hearest the sound thereof ,
but canst not tell whence it cometh ,
and whither it goeth :
so is every one that is born of the Spirit .
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Nicodemus answered and said unto him ,
How can these things be ?
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Jesus answered and said unto him ,
Art thou a master of Israel ,
and knowest not these things ?
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Verily ,
verily ,
I say unto thee ,
We speak that we do know ,
and testify that we have seen ;
and ye receive not our witness .
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If I have told you earthly things ,
and ye believe not ,
how shall ye believe ,
if I tell you of heavenly things ?
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And no man hath ascended up to heaven ,
but he that came down from heaven ,
even the Son of man which is in heaven .
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And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness ,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up :
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That whosoever believeth in him should not perish ,
but have eternal life .
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For God so loved the world ,
that he gave his only begotten Son ,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish ,
but have everlasting life .
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For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world ;
but that the world through him might be saved .
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He that believeth on him is not condemned :
but he that believeth not is condemned already ,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God .
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And this is the condemnation ,
that light is come into the world ,
and men loved darkness rather than light ,
because their deeds were evil .
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For every one that doeth evil hateth the light ,
neither cometh to the light ,
lest his deeds should be reproved .
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But he that doeth truth cometh to the light ,
that his deeds may be made manifest ,
that they are wrought in God .
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After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea ;
and there he tarried with them ,
and baptized .
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And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim ,
because there was much water there :
and they came ,
and were baptized .
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For John was not yet cast into prison .
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Then there arose a question between some of John '
s disciples and the Jews about purifying .
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And they came unto John ,
and said unto him ,
Rabbi ,
he that was with thee beyond Jordan ,
to whom thou barest witness ,
behold ,
the same baptizeth ,
and all men come to him .
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John answered and said ,
A man can receive nothing ,
except it be given him from heaven .
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Ye yourselves bear me witness ,
that I said ,
I am not the Christ ,
but that I am sent before him .
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He that hath the bride is the bridegroom :
but the friend of the bridegroom ,
which standeth and heareth him ,
rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom '
s voice :
this my joy therefore is fulfilled .
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He must increase ,
but I must decrease .
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He that cometh from above is above all :
he that is of the earth is earthly ,
and speaketh of the earth :
he that cometh from heaven is above all .
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And what he hath seen and heard ,
that he testifieth ;
and no man receiveth his testimony .
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He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true .
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For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God :
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him .
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The Father loveth the Son ,
and hath given all things into his hand .
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He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life :
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ;
but the wrath of God abideth on him .
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When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John ,
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Though Jesus himself baptized not ,
but his disciples ,)
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He left Judaea ,
and departed again into Galilee .
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And he must needs go through Samaria .
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Then cometh he to a city of Samaria ,
which is called Sychar ,
near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph .
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Now Jacob '
s well was there .
Jesus therefore ,
being wearied with his journey ,
sat thus on the well :
and it was about the sixth hour .
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There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water :
Jesus saith unto her ,
Give me to drink .
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For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat .)
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Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him ,
How is it that thou ,
being a Jew ,
askest drink of me ,
which am a woman of Samaria ?
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans .
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Jesus answered and said unto her ,
If thou knewest the gift of God ,
and who it is that saith to thee ,
Give me to drink ;
thou wouldest have asked of him ,
and he would have given thee living water .
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The woman saith unto him ,
Sir ,
thou hast nothing to draw with ,
and the well is deep :
from whence then hast thou that living water ?
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Art thou greater than our father Jacob ,
which gave us the well ,
and drank thereof himself ,
and his children ,
and his cattle ?
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Jesus answered and said unto her ,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again :
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But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life .
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The woman saith unto him ,
Sir ,
give me this water ,
that I thirst not ,
neither come hither to draw .
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Jesus saith unto her ,
Go ,
call thy husband ,
and come hither .
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The woman answered and said ,
I have no husband .
Jesus said unto her ,
Thou hast well said ,
I have no husband :
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For thou hast had five husbands ;
and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband :
in that saidst thou truly .
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The woman saith unto him ,
Sir ,
I perceive that thou art a prophet .
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ;
and ye say ,
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship .
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Jesus saith unto her ,
Woman ,
believe me ,
the hour cometh ,
when ye shall neither in this mountain ,
nor yet at Jerusalem ,
worship the Father .
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Ye worship ye know not what :
we know what we worship :
for salvation is of the Jews .
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But the hour cometh ,
and now is ,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth :
for the Father seeketh such to worship him .
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God is a Spirit :
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth .
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The woman saith unto him ,
I know that Messias cometh ,
which is called Christ :
when he is come ,
he will tell us all things .
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Jesus saith unto her ,
I that speak unto thee am he .
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And upon this came his disciples ,
and marvelled that he talked with the woman :
yet no man said ,
What seekest thou ?
or ,
Why talkest thou with her ?
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The woman then left her waterpot ,
and went her way into the city ,
and saith to the men ,
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Come ,
see a man ,
which told me all things that ever I did :
is not this the Christ ?
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Then they went out of the city ,
and came unto him .
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In the mean while his disciples prayed him ,
saying ,
Master ,
eat .
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But he said unto them ,
I have meat to eat that ye know not of .
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Therefore said the disciples one to another ,
Hath any man brought him ought to eat ?
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Jesus saith unto them ,
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me ,
and to finish his work .
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Say not ye ,
There are yet four months ,
and then cometh harvest ?
behold ,
I say unto you ,
Lift up your eyes ,
and look on the fields ;
for they are white already to harvest .
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And he that reapeth receiveth wages ,
and gathereth fruit unto life eternal :
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together .
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And herein is that saying true ,
One soweth ,
and another reapeth .
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I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour :
other men laboured ,
and ye are entered into their labours .
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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman ,
which testified ,
He told me all that ever I did .
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So when the Samaritans were come unto him ,
they besought him that he would tarry with them :
and he abode there two days .
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And many more believed because of his own word ;
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And said unto the woman ,
Now we believe ,
not because of thy saying :
for we have heard him ourselves ,
and know that this is indeed the Christ ,
the Saviour of the world .
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Now after two days he departed thence ,
and went into Galilee .
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For Jesus himself testified ,
that a prophet hath no honour in his own country .
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Then when he was come into Galilee ,
the Galilaeans received him ,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast :
for they also went unto the feast .
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So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee ,
where he made the water wine .
And there was a certain nobleman ,
whose son was sick at Capernaum .
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When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee ,
he went unto him ,
and besought him that he would come down ,
and heal his son :
for he was at the point of death .
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Then said Jesus unto him ,
Except ye see signs and wonders ,
ye will not believe .
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The nobleman saith unto him ,
Sir ,
come down ere my child die .
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Jesus saith unto him ,
Go thy way ;
thy son liveth .
And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him ,
and he went his way .
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And as he was now going down ,
his servants met him ,
and told him ,
saying ,
Thy son liveth .
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Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend .
And they said unto him ,
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him .
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So the father knew that it was at the same hour ,
in the which Jesus said unto him ,
Thy son liveth :
and himself believed ,
and his whole house .
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This is again the second miracle that Jesus did ,
when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee .
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After this there was a feast of the Jews ;
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem .
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