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The Word Became Flesh
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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He was with God in the beginning.
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Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
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In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
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He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
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Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
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Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
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No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
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Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
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John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
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“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know.
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This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
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And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
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John’s Disciples Follow Jesus
The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.
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“Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
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Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water” ; so they filled them to the brim.
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After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
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So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
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The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
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But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
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He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
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The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
