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There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee.
You Must Be Born Again
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”
“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”
“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”
Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony.
But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John the Baptist Exalts Jesus
Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them there, baptizing people.
John the Baptist Exalts Christ
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.
At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to him for baptism.
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized
Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification.
So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Rabbi, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you identified as the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going to him instead of coming to us.”
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness — look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven.
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’
You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom’s friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what he tells them!
He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true.
Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.
For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands.
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.