JOHN
Chapter 3
| John | Twenty | 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him." | |
| John | Twenty | 3:3 | "In truth I tell you," exclaimed Jesus, "unless a man is reborn, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." | |
| John | Twenty | 3:4 | "How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?" | |
| John | Twenty | 3:5 | "In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "unless a man owes his birth to Water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:6 | All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:8 | The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit." | |
| John | Twenty | 3:11 | In truth I tell you that we speak of what we know, and state what we have seen; and yet you do not accept our statements. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:12 | If, when I tell you earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things? | |
| John | Twenty | 3:13 | No one has ascended to Heaven, except him who descended from Heaven-- the Son of Man himself. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:14 | And, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up; | |
| John | Twenty | 3:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:17 | For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:18 | He who believes in him escapes condemnation, while he who does not believe in him is already condemned, because he has not believed in the only Son of God. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:19 | The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:20 | For he who lives an evil life hates the light, and will not come to it, for fear that his actions should be exposed; | |
| John | Twenty | 3:21 | But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:22 | After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the country parts of Judea; and there he stayed with them, and baptized. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:23 | John, also, was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there were many streams there; and people were constantly coming and being baptized. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:25 | Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew on the subject of 'purification;' | |
| John | Twenty | 3:26 | And the disciples came to John and said. "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, and to whom you have yourself borne testimony--he, also, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him." | |
| John | Twenty | 3:28 | You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.' | |
| John | Twenty | 3:29 | It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:31 | He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:32 | He states what he has seen and what he heard, and yet no one accepts his statement. | |
| John | Twenty | 3:34 | For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God's own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit. | |