John 3:17-28

¹⁷For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

¹⁸he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

²⁰for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

²¹but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

²³and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized —

²⁴for John was not yet cast into the prison —

²⁵there arose then a question from the disciples of John with some Jews about purifying,

²⁶and they came unto John, and said to him, 'Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

²⁷John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

²⁸ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;