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Yochanan testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

For the law was given through Moshe. Grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

I didn't know him, but for this reason I came immersing in water: that he would be revealed to Yisra'el."

Yeshua turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"

His talmidim remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, for fear that his works would be reproved.

For Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

For his talmidim had gone away into the city to buy food.

The Shomroni woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Yehudi, ask for a drink from me, a Shomroni woman?" (For Yehudim have no dealings with Shomroni.)

for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Yehudim.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

At this, his talmidim came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"