I did not recognize<n id="1" /> him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes<n id="1" /> me will live because of me.

So Jesus added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision<n id="1" /> (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child<n id="2" /> on the Sabbath.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the officers<n id="1" /> returned<n id="2" /> to the chief priests and Pharisees,<n id="3" /> who said to them, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you bring him back with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />

The one who belongs to<n id="1" /> God listens and responds<n id="2" /> to God&#8217;s words. You don&#8217;t listen and respond,<n id="3" /> because you don&#8217;t belong to God.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> the one who does not enter the sheepfold<n id="2" /> by the door,<n id="3" /> but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Jesus said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have shown you many good deeds<n id="2" /> from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?&#8221;

I knew that you always listen to me,<n id="1" /> but I said this<n id="2" /> for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Nevertheless, even among the rulers<n id="1" /> many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees<n id="2" /> they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ,<n id="3" /> so that they would not be put out of<n id="4" /> the synagogue.<n id="5" />

Peter said to him, &#8220;Lord, why can&#8217;t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!&#8221;<n id="1" />

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me,<n id="1" /> believe because of the miraculous deeds<n id="2" /> themselves.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit<n id="1" /> will receive from me what is mine<n id="2" /> and will tell it to you.<n id="3" />

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly<n id="1" /> when he hears the bridegroom&#8217;s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He told me everything I ever did.&#8221;

They said to the woman, &#8220;No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one<n id="1" /> really is the Savior of the world.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For this reason the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now a large crowd of Judeans<n id="1" /> learned<n id="2" /> that Jesus<n id="3" /> was there, and so they came not only because of him<n id="4" /> but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? &#8216;Father, deliver me<n id="1" /> from this hour&#8217;?<n id="2" /> No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.<n id="3" />

If you belonged to the world,<n id="1" /> the world would love you as its own.<n id="2" /> However, because you do not belong to the world,<n id="3" /> but I chose you out of the world, for this reason<n id="4" /> the world hates you.<n id="5" />