I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

Jesus replied, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.”

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

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

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

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

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 was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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