John 3:9-24

⁹Nychodeme answeride, and seide to hym, Hou moun these thingis be don?

¹⁰Jhesus answeride, and seide to hym, Thou art a maister in Israel, and knowist not these thingis?

¹¹Treuli, treuli, Y seie to thee, for we speken that that we witen, and we witnessen that that we han seyn, and ye taken not oure witnessyng.

¹²If Y haue seid to you ertheli thingis, and ye bileuen not, hou if Y seie to you heueneli thingis, schulen ye bileue?

¹³And no man stieth in to heuene, but he that cam doun fro heuene, mannys sone that is in heuene.

¹⁴And as Moises areride a serpent in desert, so it bihoueth mannys sone to be reisid,

¹⁵that ech man that bileueth in hym, perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.

¹⁶For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.

¹⁷For God sente not his sone in to the world, that he iuge the world, but that the world be saued bi him.

¹⁸He that bileueth in hym, is not demed; but he that bileueth not, is now demed, for he bileueth not in the name of the `oon bigetun sone of God.

¹⁹And this is the dom, for liyt cam in to the world, and men loueden more derknessis than liyt; for her werkes weren yuele.

²⁰For ech man that doith yuele, hatith the liyt; and he cometh not to the liyt, that hise werkis be not repreued.

²¹But he that doith treuthe, cometh to the liyt, that hise werkis be schewid, that thei ben don in God.

²²Aftir these thingis Jhesus cam, and hise disciplis, in to the loond of Judee, and there he dwellide with hem, and baptiside.

²³And Joon was baptisinge in Ennon, bisidis Salym, for many watris weren there; and thei camen, and weren baptisid.

²⁴And Joon was not yit sent in to prisoun.