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 \v 21 Jesus replied to the crowd, "Because I did one work of power for you to see, you all marvel at it.
-\v 22 Moses gave you a law, and that law says you must circumcise your male children and that you must do that exactly seven days after the children are born. (To be accurate, this rite was from your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and not from Moses, who wrote down the law about this practice.) Because of that requirement in the law, you sometimes have to circumcise a baby on the Sabbath day, and that is working, too!
+\v 22 Moses gave you a law, and that law says you must circumcise your male children and that you must do that exactly seven days after the children are born. (To be accurate, this rite was from your forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and not from Moses, who wrote down the law about this practice.) Because of that requirement in the law, you sometimes have to circumcise a baby on the Sabbath day, and that is working, too!
 
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-\v 23 You sometimes circumcise boys on the Sabbath so that you will not violate the law of Moses. So why are you angry with me, saying I worked on the Sabbath when I was healing a man! Healing someone is more wonderful, and it is a greater work than circumcising a baby!
+\v 23 You sometimes circumcise boys on the Sabbath so that you will not violate the law of Moses. So why are you angry with me, saying I worked on the Sabbath when I was healing a man! Healing someone is more wonderful and a greater work than circumcising a baby!
 \v 24 Stop deciding whether healing this man was right or wrong according to a false application of God's law, and that without any thought! Instead, decide what a person should do and how he should be judged by the principle of what is right and what is just according to God, not man."
 
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 \v 25 Some of the people from Jerusalem were saying, "Is this not the man they are trying to put to death?
-\v 26 He is saying these things publicly, but the authorities are not saying anything to oppose him. Is that because the they know he is the Christ?
-\v 27 But he cannot be the Christ because we know where he comes from. But when Christ comes no one is supposed to know where comes from."
+\v 26 He is saying these things publicly, but the authorities are not saying anything to oppose him. Is that because they know he is the Christ?
+\v 27 But he cannot be the Christ, because we know where he comes from. But when Christ comes, no one is supposed to know where he comes from."
 
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 \v 30 Then they tried to lay their hands on him, but no one could arrest him because it was not yet the time for him to complete his work and for his life to end.
 \v 31 Many in the crowd, after they heard him and saw his works, put their trust in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he be able to do more miraculous signs than this man has done?"
-\v 32 The Pharisees heard them quietly speaking these things about Jesus. So they, the chief priests and Pharisees together sent some officers to arrest him.
+\v 32 The Pharisees heard them quietly speaking these things about Jesus. So the chief priests and Pharisees together sent some officers to arrest him.
 
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-\v 33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for a only a short time. Then I am going back to the one who sent me.
+\v 33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a short time. Then I am going back to the one who sent me.
 \v 34 You will search for me, but you will not find me. Where I am going, you cannot come."
 
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-\v 37 So on the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood up cried out with a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink."
+\v 37 So on the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood up cried out with a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
 \v 38 Whoever trusts in me, as the scripture said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
 
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 \v 46 The officers replied, "No one ever spoke like this man."
 
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-\v 47 Then the Pharisees replied, "Have you been deceived, too?
+\v 47 Then the Pharisees replied, "Have you also been deceived?
 \v 48 None of the Jewish authorities or the Pharisees have trusted in Jesus.
 \v 49 This crowd who does not know the teachings of our laws, let them be cursed!"
 
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 \v 34 Jesus replied, "I am telling you the truth: All who sin obey their sinful desires just as a slave is forced to obey his master.
-\v 35 Slaves will not remain as permanent members of a family but may be set free to return home or sold. However, a son is a member of the family forever.
-\v 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free.
+\v 35 Slaves will not remain as permanent members of a family but may be set free to return home or may be sold. However, a son is a member of the family forever.
+\v 36 So if I, the Son, set you free, you will be absolutely free.
 
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-\v 37 I know that you are in Abraham's family; you are his descendants. Yet, your people are trying to put me to death. You will not trust anything I say.
+\v 37 I know that you are in Abraham's family; you are his descendants. Yet your people are trying to put me to death. You will not trust anything I say.
 \v 38 I tell you all about the wonders and wisdom my Father has shown me, but you are only doing what your father told you to do."
 
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 \v 41 No! You are doing the things that your real father did." They said to him, "We do not know about you, but we are not illegitimate children. We have only one Father, and that is God."
 
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-\v 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me because I came from God and now I have come here to this world. I did not come because I myself decided to come but because he sent me.
+\v 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I have come here to this world. I did not come because I myself decided to come but because he sent me.
 \v 43 I will tell you why you do not understand what I say. It is because you do not accept my message or my teachings.
-\v 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you desire to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the time people first sinned. He has abandoned God's truth; it is not in him. Whenever he lies, he is speaking according to his character because he is a liar; everyone who lies does what the devil wants him to do.
+\v 44 You belong to your father the devil, and you desire to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the time people first sinned. He has abandoned God's truth; it is not in him. Whenever he lies, he is speaking according to his character because he is a liar; everyone who lies does what the devil wants him to do.
 
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 \v 45 Because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me!
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-\v 57 Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "You are not fifty years old yet! You have seen Abraham?"
+\v 57 Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old! You have seen Abraham?"
 \v 58 Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth, before Abraham was, I AM."
 \v 59 So they picked up stones to put him to death. However, Jesus hid himself, left the temple, and went somewhere else.
 
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 \v 3 Jesus replied, "It was not that either this man or his parents sinned. He was born blind so that today people may see the powerful work God would do in him.
-\v 4 We must do the works of the one who sent me while it is still day. Night is on the way and when it arrives, no one will be able to work.
+\v 4 We must do the works of the one who sent me while it is still day. Night is on the way and when it arrives no one will be able to work.
 \v 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
 
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-\v 6 When he said this, he spit on the ground. He made mud with his saliva, and applied it like a medicine to the man's eyes.
+\v 6 When he said this, he spit on the ground. He made mud with his saliva and applied it like a medicine to the man's eyes.
 \v 7 Then Jesus said to him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam!" (The name of the pool means "sent"). So the man went and washed in the pool. When he came back, he was able to see.
 
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-\v 39 Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge the world so that those who do not see may see and so that those who see may become blind."
+\v 39 Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge the world, so that those who do not see may see and so that those who see may become blind."
 \v 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard him say this, and they asked Jesus, "Are we also blind?"
 \v 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt. However, because you now defend yourself and say, 'We see,' your guilt is staying with you.