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As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?
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Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do.
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But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father."
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Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.
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Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there. 1
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Many people came to him. "John performed no miracles," they said, "but everything he said about this man was true."