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"Most truly I tell you," answered Jesus, "Except a man is born from above he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

"How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother and be born?"

"Most truly I tell you, Except a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. What is born of the flesh is flesh. What is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not wonder because I told you, You must be born from above. The Spirit breathes where he desires and you hear his voice. But you cannot tell where he comes from, nor where he is going. So is every one who is born of the Spirit.”

"How can this be?"

"Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know this? Most truly I tell you, We talk about what we know and bear witness to what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of man who is in heaven. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God I did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And the condemnation is this, that light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one who keeps doing wrong

Hates the light, and keeps away from the light,
So that his deeds may not be detected.

But he who keeps doing right

Comes to the light

So that his deeds may be shown to have been done in reliance on God.

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After this Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judæa, and he was staying there with them and purifying.

John also was purifying in Ænon near Salim, because there were many springs of water there. So people kept coming and were being purified. For John had not yet been thrown into prison.

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There sprang up a questioning on the part of John's disciples and a Jew about purifying.

came to John.

They

"Rabbi," they said, "he who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, is purifying and everybody is coming to him."

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"A man can receive nothing," answered John,

except it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this my joy is made full. He must increase but I must decrease."

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth's point of view he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all. What he has seen and heard he bears witness to, and no one reIceives his witness. He who has received his witness has set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. · For he does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son and has given everything into his hand.

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He who believes in the Son, has eternal life;

But he who does not obey the Son will not see life;

But the wrath of God continues on him.

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When the Lord got to know how the Pharisees had heard Jesus was making and purifying more disciples than John, though Jesus himself was not purifying but his disciples, he left Judæa and went into Galilee.

He must go through Samaria. Then he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar near a plot of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. So wearied with his journey he was sitting just as he was by the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came out to draw water.

"Give me a drink," said Jesus to her.

His disciples had gone to the city to buy food. "How is it that you, a Jew," she said, "ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria ? "

The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. "If you knew the gift of God," he said, "and who it is who said, Give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

"You have nothing to draw with, Sir, and the well is deep. How can it be then that you have

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that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, drank of it himself, and his children and cattle?"

"Whoever drinks this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks the water I shall give him shall never thirst. For the water I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up so as to produce eternal life in him.”

"Give me this water, Sir, so that I may not thirst, nor come all the way here to draw." "Go call your husband and come here." "I have no husband."

"You have well said, I have no husband.

you have had five husbands, and now have is not your husband.

that you spoke the truth.”

For

he whom you When you said

Our fathers

"I see, Sir, you are a Prophet. worshipped in this mountain, and you say in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

"Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you shall worship the Father neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. You worship you do what we worship, for

not know what. We know salvation is from the Jews. But the time is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth. seeking such to worship him.

For the Father is God is Spirit and