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"Look! the Lamb of God who is taking away the sin of the world!" said John the next day as he saw Jesus coming to him. "This is he of whom I said, A man who has come to be before me is coming after me. For he was before I came into being and I did not know him. But I came purifying with water so that he might be made known to Israel.

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"I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove," John continued to witness," and it continued on him. And I did not know him. he who sent me to purify with water said to me: Upon whomever you shall see the Spirit descending and continuing on him, he is he who is purifying with the Holy Spirit. So I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."

Again the next day after, John was standing and two of his disciples.

"Look, the Lamb of God!" he said, looking on Jesus as he was walking.

The two disciples heard him speak and followed Jesus.

"What are you seeking?" said Jesus as he turned and saw them following.

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Rabbi," that is, Teacher, they answered, "where do you live ?."

"Come and see."

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They came and saw where he was living and staid with him that day. For it was about four

o'clock.

One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He was the first to find his own brother Simon.

"We have found the Messiah," he said, which means, the Christ. So he brought him to Jesus.

"You are Simon the son of John," said Jesus

when he saw him.

which means a stone.

"You shall be called Cephas,"

The next day Jesus wanted to go into Galilee. He found Philip.

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Philip was of Bethsaida the city of Andrew and Peter. He found Nathaniel.

"We have found him about whom Moses in the law, and the Prophets wrote," he said, "Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

"Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? ' "Come and see."

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"Look! an Israelite, indeed, in whom is no guile," said Jesus about Nathaniel when he saw him coming.

"How is it that you are acquainted with me?" said Nathaniel to him.

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"Before Philip called you while you were under the fig-tree, I saw you.

"Rabbi, you are the Son of God.

King of Israel."

You are the

"Because I told you, I saw you under the figtree, do you believe? You shall see greater things

than these."

"Most truly I tell you," Jesus continued. "You shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man."

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The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there, and both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the marriage. And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him:

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"What do you want me to do, mother?" Jesus answered. "My time has not yet come.' "Do whatever he tells you," said his mother to the servants.

Now according to the Jews' way of purifying there were set there six stone water jars containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.

"Fill the water jars with water," said Jesus. They filled them up to the brim.

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"Draw out now and carry it to the Master of the feast.'

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They carried it. So when the master of the feast tasted the water become wine and did not know where it came from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew, he called the bridegroom.

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Everybody at first sets out good wine," he said, "and when they have drunk freely, then what is worse. But you have kept the good wine till now."

Jesus did this beginning of his signs in Cana of Galilee and made known his majesty, and his disciples believed in him.

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After this Jesus went down to Capernaum, he, his mother, brothers, and disciples. But they

staid there only a few days.

The Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and he found in the Temple those who were selling oxen, sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting. So when he had made a whip of cords he drove them all out of the Temple, and the sheep and oxen. He poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables.

"Take these things out of here," he said to

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"Do not make my

those who were selling doves.
Father's House a house of merchandise."
His disciples remembered it was written,

"The zeal for thine house hath eaten me up." "What sign do you show us," answered the Jews, "seeing you do these things?"

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Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."

"Forty-six years was this Temple in building and will you raise it up in three days?"

He was speaking of the temple of his body. So when he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered he had said this to them. So they believed the Scripture and what Jesus had said.

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When he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they looked at the signs he was doing. But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he had gotten to know everybody and did not need any one to tell him about anybody. For he himself had gotten to know what was in the man.

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus

by night.

"Rabbi," he said, "we know you are a teacher come from God. For no one can do these signs which you are doing except God is with him."

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