John 3:7-35

⁷Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

⁸The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

⁹And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

¹⁰And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

¹¹Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

¹²If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

¹³And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

¹⁴As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

¹⁵So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

¹⁶For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

¹⁷God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

¹⁸The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

²⁰The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

²¹But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

²²After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he was with them for some time, giving baptism.

²³Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.

²⁴For at this time John had not been put into prison.

²⁵Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

²⁶And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

²⁷And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

²⁹He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

³⁰He has to become greater while I become less.

³¹He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

³²He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

³³He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

³⁵The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.