John 3:10-17

¹⁰“You're a famous teacher in Israel, and yet you don't understand such things?” Jesus replied.

¹¹“I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know and give evidence regarding what we have seen, but you refuse to accept our testimony.

¹²If you don't trust what I say when I tell you about earthly things, how would you ever trust what I say if I were to tell you about heavenly things?

¹³No one has gone up to heaven, but the Son of man came down from heaven.

¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up,

¹⁵that everyone who trusts in him will have eternal life.

¹⁶For God loved the world, and this is how: he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who trusts in him shouldn't die, but have eternal life.

¹⁷God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.