John 3:7-35

⁷Wonder thou not, for I said to thee, It behooveth you to be born again.

⁸The Spirit breatheth where he will, and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not, from whence he cometh, nor whither he goeth; so is each man that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered, and said to him, How may these things be done?

¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to him, Thou art a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹Truly, truly, I say to thee, for we speak that that we know, and we witness that that we have seen, and ye take not our witnessing.

¹²If I have said to you earthly things, and ye believe not, how if I say to you heavenly things, shall ye believe?

¹³And no man ascendeth or goeth up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, man’s Son that is in heaven or the Son of man which is in heaven.

¹⁴And as Moses areared or reared up a serpent in desert, so it behooveth man’s Son to be raised up,

¹⁵that each man that believeth in him, perish not, but have everlasting life.

¹⁶For God loved so the world or Forsooth God so loved the world, that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, that he judge the world, but that the world be saved by him.

¹⁸He that believeth in him, is not deemed, or condemned; but he that believeth not, is now deemed or condemned, for he believeth not in the name of the one or the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the doom, for light came into the world, and men loved more darknesses than light; for their works were evil.

²⁰For each man that doeth evil, hateth the light; and he cometh not to the light, that his works be not reproved.

²¹But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his works be showed, that they be done in God.

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

²³And John was baptizing in Aenon, beside Salim, for many waters were there; and they came, and were baptized or christened.

²⁴And John was not yet sent into prison.

²⁵Therefore a question was made of John’s disciples with the Jews, of the purification, or cleansing.

²⁶And they came to John, and said to him, Master or Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond or over Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witnessing, lo! he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

²⁷John answered, and said, A man may not take anything, but it be given to him from heaven.

²⁸Ye yourselves bear witnessing to me, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that hath a wife, is the husband or the spouse; but the friend of the spouse that standeth, and heareth him, joyeth with joy, for the voice of the spouse. Therefore in this thing my joy is fulfilled.

³⁰It behooveth him to wax, but me to be made less or to be diminished.

³¹He that came from above, is above all; he that is of the earth, speaketh of the earth; he that cometh from heaven, is above all.

³²And he witnesseth that thing that he hath seen, and heard, and no man taketh his witnessing.

³³But he that taketh his witnessing, hath confirmed that God is soothfast.

³⁴But he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God; for not to measure God giveth the Spirit.

³⁵The Father loveth the Son, and he hath given all things into his hand.