Lexicon :: Strong's G1565 - ekeinos

He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side[fn] ​— ​he has revealed him.

“I didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on ​— ​he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

“Come and you’ll see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.[fn]

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

“You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of him.’

“He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[fn] when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father[fn] does, the Son likewise does these things.

“John[fn] was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

“The Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven’t seen his form.

“I have come in my Father’s name, and yet you don’t accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God ​— ​that you believe in the one he has sent.”

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him? ”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Some said, “He’s the one.” Others were saying, “No, but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one.”

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

He answered, “Whether or not he’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see! ”

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s disciples.

“Who is he, Sir, that I may believe in him? ” he asked.

“Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber.

Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

“If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’ ​— ​and the Scripture cannot be broken ​— ​

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep.

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

So from that day on they plotted to kill him.

“The one who rejects me and doesn’t receive my sayings has this as his judge:[fn] The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

So he leaned back against Jesus and asked him, “Lord, who is it? ”

After receiving the piece of bread, he immediately left. And it was night.

“On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you.

“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.

“When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father ​— ​the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father ​— ​he will testify about me.

“When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: