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John
  1. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  2. 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
  3. 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
  4. 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
  5. 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
  6. 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
  7. 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  8. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
  9. 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  10. 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
  11. 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  12. 1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
  13. 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
  14. 1:39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
  15. 1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
  16. 1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
  17. 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
  18. 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
  19. 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
  20. 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
  21. 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
  22. 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
  23. 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
  24. 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
  25. 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
  26. 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
  27. 3:23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
  28. 3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
  29. 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
  30. 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
  31. 4:45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
  32. 4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
  33. 4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
  34. 4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
  35. 4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
  36. 4:54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
  37. 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  38. 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
  39. 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
  40. 5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
  41. 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
  42. 5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
  43. 5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
  44. 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
  45. 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
  46. 6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
  47. 6:10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
  48. 6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
  49. 6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
  50. 6:21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

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