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 \q the one who will prepare your way.
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-\v 3 The voice of one calling out in the wilderness,
+\v 3 The voice of one crying out in the wilderness,
 \q 'Make ready the way of the Lord;
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-\v 1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were considering how they might stealthily arrest Jesus and then kill him.
+\v 1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were seeking ways to stealthily arrest Jesus and then kill him.
 \v 2 For they were saying, "Not during the festival, so that a riot does not arise among the people."
 
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 \v 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
-\q1 "A voice of one calling out in the wilderness,
+\q1 "A voice of one crying out in the wilderness,
 \q1 'Make ready the way of the Lord,
 \q1 make his paths straight.
 

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 \v 37 His two disciples heard him say this and they followed Jesus.
-\v 38 Then Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"
+\v 38 Then Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"
 \v 39 He said to them, "Come and see." Then they came and saw where he was staying; they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
 
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 \v 14 He found sellers of oxen and sheep and pigeons in the temple, and the money changers were sitting there.
 
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-\v 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove all of them out from the temple, including both the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overthrew their tables.
+\v 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove all of them out from the temple, including both the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the money changers and turned their tables over.
 \v 16 To the pigeon sellers he said, "Take these things away from here. Stop making the house of my Father a marketplace."
 
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 \v 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back here."
 
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-\v 17 The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus replied, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband,'
+\v 17 The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus replied, "You have said correctly, 'I have no husband,'
 \v 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."
 
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-\v 27 At that moment his disciples returned. Now they were wondering why he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"
+\v 27 At that moment his disciples returned. Now they were wondering why he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"
 
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 \v 28 So the woman left her water pot, went back to the town, and said to the people,
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 \v 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
 \v 35 Do you not say, 'There are four more months and then the harvest comes'? I am saying to you, look up and see the fields, for they are already ripe for harvest!
-\v 36 He who is harvesting receives wages and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that he who sows and he who harvests may rejoice together.
+\v 36 He who is harvesting receives wages and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
 
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-\v 37 For in this the saying, 'One sows, and another harvests,' is true.
-\v 38 I sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have entered into their labor."
+\v 37 For in this the saying, 'One sows, and another reaps,' is true.
+\v 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
 
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 \v 48 Jesus then said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
-\v 49 The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
+\v 49 The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
 \v 50 Jesus said to him, "Go. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went away.
 
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 \v 19 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, the Son can do nothing of himself, except only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father is doing, the Son does in the same way.
-\v 20 For the Father loves the Son and he shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater things than these so that you will be amazed.
+\v 20 For the Father loves the Son and he shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.
 
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 \v 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to anyone he wishes.
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 \v 3 His brothers therefore said to him, "Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works that you do.
-\v 4 No one does anything in secret if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
+\v 4 No one does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
 
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 \v 5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
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 \v 37 Now on the last, great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
-\v 38 He who believes in me, just as the scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his stomach."
+\v 38 He who believes in me, just as the scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his belly."
 
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 \v 39 But he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him would receive; the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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 \v 30 The man answered and said to them, "This is remarkable, that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
-\v 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to him.
+\v 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone worships God and does his will, he listens to him.
 
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 \v 32 Since the world began it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
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 \v 17 Now the crowd testified that they had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead.
 \v 18 It was also for this reason that the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
-\v 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Look, you can do nothing; see, the world has gone after him."
+\v 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Look, you can do nothing good; see, the world has gone after him."
 
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 \v 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive him because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
 
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-\v 18 I will not leave you alone; I will come back to you.
+\v 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come back to you.
 \v 19 Yet a short amount of time and the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will also live.
 \v 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
 
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 \v 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my Father and remain in his love.
-\v 11 I have spoken these things to you so that my joy will be in you and so that your joy will be complete.
+\v 11 I have spoken these things to you so that my joy will be in you and so that your joy will be made full.
 
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 \v 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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 \v 5 But now I go to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
-\v 6 But because I have said these things to you, sadness has filled your heart.
+\v 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
 \v 7 But truly I tell you, it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
 
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 \v 18 Therefore they said, "What is this that he says, 'A short amount of time'? We do not know what he is talking about."
 
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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 yourselves, 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 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 sadness because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers her pain 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 sadness 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.
+\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.
 \v 23 On that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
 \v 24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy will be fulfilled.
 
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 \v 11 I am no longer in the world, but these people are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me so that they will be one, just as we are one.
 
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-\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe in your name, which you have given me. I protected them, and not one of them was destroyed, except for the son of destruction, so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.
+\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe in your name, which you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was destroyed, except for the son of destruction, so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.
 \v 13 Now I am coming to you, but I am saying these things in the world so that they will have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
 \v 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
 
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-\v 1 After Jesus spoke these words, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.
+\v 1 After Jesus spoke these words, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the wadi Kidron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.
 \v 2 Now Judas, who was going to betray him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
 \v 3 Then Judas, leading a group of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
 
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-\v 28 After this, knowing that everything was now completed and so that the scriptures would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
+\v 28 After this, knowing that everything was now completed and so that the scriptures would be carried out, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
 \v 29 A container full of sour wine was placed there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop staff and lifted it up to his mouth.
 \v 30 When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head and gave up his spirit.