The gate-keeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out.

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

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."

Jesus Christ, he it is who came by water, blood, and Spirit ??not by the water alone, but by the water and the blood.

The twelve gates are twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl; and the streets of the City are pure gold, clear as crystal.

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].

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

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

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

They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.