All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me [water] to drink, [since I] am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.

(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.