Jesus Talks with Nicodemus
3Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.G11612He came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."G3778G2064G4314G2424G3571G2532G2036G846G4461G1492G3754G2064G1320G2064G575G2316G1063G3762G1410G4160G5023G4592G3739G4771G4160G3362G2316G5600G3326G846
3Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you with certainty, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."G2424G611G2532G2036G846G281G281G3004G4671G3362G5100G1080G509G1410G3756G1492G932G2316
4Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"G3530G3004G4314G846G4459G1410G444G1080G5607G1088G3361G1410G1525G1208G1519G846G3384G2836G2532G1080
5Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you with certainty, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.G2424G611G281G281G3004G4671G3362G5100G1080G1537G5204G2532G4151G3756G1410G1525G1519G932G2316
6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.G1080G1537G4561G2076G4561G2532G1080G1537G4151G2076G4151
7Don't be astonished that I said to you, 'All of you must be born from above.'G2296G3361G3754G2036G4671G5209G1163G1080G509
8The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."G4151G4154G3699G2309G2532G191G5456G846G235G1492G3756G1492G4159G2064G2532G4226G5217G3779G2076G3956G1080G1537G4151
9Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"G3530G611G2532G2036G846G4459G1410G5023G1096
10Jesus answered him, "You're a teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this -G2424G611G2532G2036G846G1488G4771G1320G2474G2532G1097G3756G5023
11Truly, I tell you with certainty, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.G281G281G3004G4671G2980G3754G3739G1492G2532G3140G3739G3708G2532G2983G3756G2257G3141
12If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things -G1487G2036G5213G1919G2532G4100G3756G4459G4100G1437G2036G5213G2032
13"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.G2532G3762G305G1519G3772G1508G2597G1537G3772G5207G444G3588G5607G1722G3772
14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,G2532G2531G3475G5312G3789G1722G2048G3779G1163G5207G444G5312
15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.G3363G3956G4100G1519G846G622G3363G622G235G2192G166G2222
16"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not be lost but have eternal life.G1063G2316G3779G25G2889G5620G1325G846G3439G5207G2443G3956G4100G1519G846G622G3361G622G235G2192G166G2222
17Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.G1063G2316G649G3756G846G5207G1519G2889G2443G2919G2889G235G2443G2889G1223G846G4982
18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.G4100G1519G846G2919G3756G2919G1161G4100G3361G2919G2235G3754G4100G3361G4100G1519G3686G3439G5207G2316
19And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.G1161G3778G2076G2920G3754G5457G2064G1519G2889G2532G444G25G4655G3123G2228G5457G1063G846G2041G2258G4190
20Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.G1063G3956G4238G5337G3404G5457G2532G3756G2064G4314G5457G3363G846G2041G1651
21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."20G1161G4160G225G2064G4314G5457G2443G846G2041G5319G3754G2076G2038G1722G2316 G5023G2064G2424G2532G846G3101G1519G1093G2449G2532G1563G1304G3326G846G2532G907
John the Baptist Talks about Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.G332623John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,G1161G2491G2532G2258G907G1722G137G1451G4530G3754G2258G4183G5204G1563G2532G3854G2532G907
24since John had not yet been thrown into prison.G1063G2491G2258G3768G906G1519G5438
25Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,G3767G1096G2214G3326G1537G2491G3101G2453G4012G2512
26so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified - look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"G2532G2064G4314G2491G2532G2036G846G4461G3739G2258G3326G4675G4008G2446G3739G4771G3140G2396G3778G907G2532G3956G2064G4314G846
27John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.G2491G611G2532G2036G444G1410G3756G2983G3762G3362G5600G1325G846G1537G3772
28You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'G5210G846G3140G3427G3140G3754G2036G1473G1510G3756G5547G235G3754G1510G649G1715G1565
29It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.G2192G3565G2076G3566G1161G5384G3566G3588G2476G2532G191G846G5463G5479G1223G3566G5456G3778G1699G5479G3767G4137
30He must become more important, but I must become less important."3G1565G1163G837G1161G1691G1642 G509G2076G1883G3956G5607G1537G1093G2076G1537G1093G2532G2980G1537G1093G2064G1537G3772G2076G1883G3956 ![Info Language Arrow](https://ptents.azureedge.net/images/othericons/redarrow.png)
The One who Comes from Above
31The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.G206432He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.G2532G3739G3708G2532G191G5124G3140G2532G3762G2983G846G3141
33The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.G2983G846G3141G4972G3754G2316G2076G227
34The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.G1063G3739G2316G649G2980G4487G2316G1063G2316G1325G3756G4151G1537G3358 ![](https://ptents.azureedge.net/images/bible/clear.png)
New Testament
35The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.G3962G25G5207G2532G1325G3956G1722G846G5495
36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.G4100G1519G5207G2192G166G2222G1161G544G5207G3700G3756G3700G2222G235G3709G2316G3306G1909G846
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