John: ULB copyedits from Mel

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 \v 24 Now some from the Pharisees were sent,
-\v 25 and they asked him and said to him, "Why do you baptize then if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?"
+\v 25 and they asked him and said to him, "Why do you baptize, then, if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?"
 
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 \v 26 John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. But among you stands someone you do not know.
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 \v 32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.
 
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-\v 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified the truth.
+\v 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
 \v 34 But the testimony that I receive is not from man. I say these things that you might be saved.
 \v 35 John was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you were willing to rejoice in his light for a while.
 
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 \v 27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
 
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-\v 28 Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then will you know that I AM, and that I do nothing of myself. As the Father taught me, I speak these things.
+\v 28 Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing of myself. As the Father taught me, I speak these things.
 \v 29 He who sent me is with me, and he has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him."
 \v 30 As Jesus was saying these things, many believed in him.
 
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-\v 45 Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
+\v 45 Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
 \v 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.
 
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 \v 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
 
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-\v 56 They were looking for Jesus, and speaking one with another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the festival?"
+\v 56 They were looking for Jesus and speaking one with another as they stood in the temple: "What do you think? That he will not come to the festival?"
 \v 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given an order that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might seize him.
 
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-\v 44 Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in me, believes not only in me but also in him who sent me,
+\v 44 Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in me believes not only in me but also in him who sent me,
 \v 45 and the one who sees me sees him who sent me.
 
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 \v 47 If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
 
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-\v 48 The one who rejects me and who does not receive my words, has one who judges him. The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
+\v 48 The one who rejects me and who does not receive my words has one who judges him. The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
 \v 49 For I did not speak for myself, but it is the Father who sent me, who has given me the command about what to say and what to speak.
 \v 50 I know that his command is eternal life, so that is what I say—just as the Father has spoken to me, so I speak."
 
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 \v 1 Now it was before the Festival of the Passover. Jesus knew that his hour had come to go out of this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
-\v 2 Now the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot son of Simon, to betray Jesus. So during dinner,
+\v 2 Now the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot son of Simon to betray Jesus. So during dinner,
 
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 \v 3 Jesus—who knew that the Father had given everything over into his hands and that he had come from God and was going back to God—
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 \v 19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Is this what you are asking each other, what I meant by saying, 'In a short amount of time and you will no longer see me, and again in a short amount of time and you will see me'?
 \v 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will be glad. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
-\v 21 When a woman gives birth she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers her tribulation because of her joy that a man has been born into the world.
+\v 21 When a woman gives birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers her tribulation because of her joy that a man has been born into the world.
 
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 \v 22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your heart will be glad, and no one will be able to take away your joy from you.
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 \v 32 See, the hour is coming, yes, and has indeed come, when you will be scattered, everyone to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
-\v 33 I have spoken these things to you so that you will have peace in me. In the world you have tribulation, but have courage, I have conquered the world."
+\v 33 I have spoken these things to you so that you will have peace in me. In the world you have tribulation. But have courage! I have conquered the world."
 
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-\v 33 Then Pilate entered the government headquarters again and called Jesus and he said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
+\v 33 Then Pilate entered the government headquarters again and called Jesus, and he said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
 \v 34 Jesus answered, "Do you speak from yourself, or did others speak to you about me?"
 \v 35 Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and the chief priests gave you over to me. What did you do?"
 
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 \v 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and whipped him.
-\v 2 The soldiers weaved a crown of thorns. They put it on the head of Jesus and dressed him with a purple garment.
+\v 2 The soldiers wove a crown of thorns. They put it on the head of Jesus and dressed him with a purple garment.
 \v 3 They came to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck him.
 
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 \v 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, since he was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate if he could take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph came and took away his body.
-\v 39 Nicodemus also came, he who at first had come to Jesus by night. He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred litras.
+\v 39 Nicodemus also came—he who at first had come to Jesus by night. He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred litras.
 
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 \v 40 So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, as was the custom of the Jews to bury bodies.
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-\v 1 Now early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and she saw the stone rolled away from the tomb.
+\v 1 Now early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb, and she saw the stone rolled away from the tomb.
 \v 2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and she said to them, "They took away the Lord out from the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
 
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