John 3:10-32

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to Him: “You are the teacher of Israel, yet you do not understand these things?

¹¹Most assuredly I say to you, we speak what we know and testify to what we have seen, but you (pl) do not receive our testimony.

¹²If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I should tell you the heavenly?

¹³No one has gone up into Heaven except the One who came down out of Heaven —the Son of the Man, who is in Heaven.

¹⁴Also, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, just so the Son of the Man must be lifted up,

¹⁵so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.

¹⁶Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.

¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁸The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹“Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were malignant.

²⁰For whoever practices evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

²¹But whoever does the truth comes to the Light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”

²²After these things Jesus, with His disciples, went into the Judean countryside, and there He spent time with them and baptized.

²³Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salem, because there was plenty of water there. And people were coming and being baptized;

²⁴for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

²⁵Then some of John's disciples had an argument with a Judean about purification.

²⁶So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the One who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you have testified—well, here He is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!”

²⁷John answered and said: “A person can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven.

²⁸You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’

²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom's voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹“He who comes from Above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

³²And to what He has seen and heard He testifies, yet no one receives His testimony.