"I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,

I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel."

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.

Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.

and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

and a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink"

Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw water with, and it is a deep well; where do you get your 'living' water?

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

"Ah, sir," said the woman, "give me this water, so that I need not thirst or come all this road to draw water."

Then the woman left her water-pot, and going off to the town told the people,

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

he who believes in me ??out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow"

They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

only, one of the soldiers pricked his side with a lance, and out came blood and water in a moment.

So the disciple who was Jesus' favourite said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Hearing it was the Lord, Simon Peter threw on his blouse (he was stripped for work) and jumped into the water,