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"And now I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven."

He came into the very world he created, but the world didn't recognize him.

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

For the law was given through Moses, but God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father's heart. He has revealed God to us.

John told them, "I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize.

I did not recognize him as the Messiah, but I have been baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

I didn't know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'

Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus. Looking intently at Simon, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, son of John—but you will be called Cephas" (which means "Peter").

But his mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

"A host always serves the best wine first," he said. "Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!"

But the Jewish leaders demanded, "What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it."

But when Jesus said "this temple," he meant his own body.

But Jesus didn't trust them, because he knew all about people.

Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit."

But if you don't believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.