John 3:9-24

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

¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹Amen, amen I say to thee, that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, and you receive not our testimony.

¹²If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?

¹³And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.

¹⁶For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

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

¹⁸He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

²⁰For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

²¹But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God.

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

²³And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim; because there was much water there; and they came and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.