I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”

Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”