John 3:16-24

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.

¹⁸He that believeth on him, is not condemned: but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²¹But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

²³And John also was baptizing in Enon, near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.