John 3:9-25

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel — and these things thou dost not know!

¹¹'Verily, verily, I say to thee — What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

¹²if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

¹³and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down — the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

¹⁴'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

¹⁵that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

¹⁶for God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

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,