New Testament · Gospels and Acts

John chapter 3

There was a man from the group named Nicodemus — he was one of the Jewish .He came to Jesus and said, “, we know you’re a teacher who has come from God. No one could do the you’re doing unless God were with him.”Jesus answered him, “: unless someone is , they can’t even see .”Nicodemus said, “How can someone be born when they’re already old? They can’t go back into their mother’s womb and be , can they?”Jesus answered, “I’m telling you the absolute truth: unless someone is and , they can’t enter God’s kingdom.”What’s born from is human. What’s born from the Breath is of the Breath. that I told you, ‘You must be born from above.’The blows wherever it wants to — you hear it, but you have no idea where it’s coming from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone born of .“How can this be possible?” Nicodemus asked.Jesus replied, “You’re and you don’t understand these things?”I’m telling you the absolute truth: we speak about what we know and to what we’ve actually seen, but you all still don’t accept our testimony.If I told you about and you don’t believe, how are you going to believe when I tell you about heavenly things?No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven — the .And just like Moses in the wilderness, the Son of Man has to be lifted up,so that everyone who in him will have .This is how deeply God cared for — he gave his , so that everyone who in him won’t be but will have .Because God didn’t send his Son into the world to the world — he sent him to it.Anyone who trusts in him isn’t condemned. But anyone who doesn’t trust , because they haven’t trusted in of God’s one and only Son.And this is the basis for the judgment: the has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were .Everyone who does corrupt things hates the light and won’t come near it, because the light would their actions.But anyone who comes toward the light, so that it becomes clear their actions have been done through God.After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the , and he spent time there with them, people.John was also submerging people at near Salim, because there was plenty of water there, and people kept coming to be submerged.(This was before John had been thrown in prison.)Now a debate broke out between some of John’s followers and a Jewish man about .They went to John and said, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan — the one you about — look, he’s submerging people too, and everyone’s going to him instead!”John answered, “A person can’t receive anything unless it’s been given to them .”You yourselves can confirm that I said, ‘I’m not — I’ve just been sent ahead of him.’The groom is the one who has the bride. But , who stands nearby and listens for him, is when he hears the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is now complete.He must , and I must decrease.The one who comes is above everything. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks from an earthly perspective. The one who comes from heaven is above everything.He testifies to what he’s seen and heard, yet his testimony.But whoever does accept his testimony has that God is true.The one God sent speaks God’s words, because God gives .The Father the Son and has .The person who in the Son has . But the person who the Son won’t see life — instead, remains on them.