John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid!"

"Stop being afraid, people of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting upon a donkey's colt!"

For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."