He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

John testified [repeatedly] about Him and has cried out [testifying officially for the record, with validity and relevance], “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I and has priority over me, for He existed before me.’”

Because, out of his fulness, we all, received, even favour over against favour.

Because, the law, through Moses, was given, favour and truth, through Jesus Christ, came into existence.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he was before me;

and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.

And they had no wine, because the wine of the marriage was exhausted. Then the mother of Jesus says to Him, There is no wine.

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Be not astonished because I said to thee; It behooveth you to be born from above.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

but every one doing the truth comes to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they have been wrought in God.

And John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest

And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.

And many more believed because of his own word;

And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, [because they] had seen all [the things] he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

So, the Jews said to the man who was healed, "It is not permissible for you to pick up your cot because it is the Sabbath day."

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

For the father loveth the son, and showeth him all things, whatsoever he himself doeth. And he will show him greater works than these, because ye should marvel.

because that all men should honour the son, even as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the son, the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him.

And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

'Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

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

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

(Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.)

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

Then Jesus, [because he] knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make [him] king, withdrew again up the mountain [by] himself alone.

The sea was getting rough and rising high because a strong wind was blowing.

The day following, the multitude who had stood on the other side of the sea, because they saw there was no other vessel there, save that one into which his disciples went, and that Jesus went not into the vessel with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone:

Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

But Jesus, [because he] knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

and he said, 'Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

(Now he was speaking about Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot, because this one--one of the twelve--was going to betray him.)

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

So there was a division among the people because of him.

And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go: but ye know not whence I come and whither I go.

And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who has sent me.

These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.

Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.

And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

because of this his parents said -- 'He is of age, ask him.'

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind [to spiritual things], you would have no sin [and would not be blamed for your unbelief]; but since you claim to have [spiritual] sight, [you have no excuse so] your sin and guilt remain.

When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.