1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2This man came to him by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
3Jesus answered and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”
5Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’
8The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can these things be?”
10Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
11Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, and you people do not receive our testimony.
12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.
18The one who believes in him is not judged; but the one who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
20For everyone who does evil things hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.
21But the one who does the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as having been done in God.
22After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the Judean land, and there he remained with them and was baptizing.
23John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there, and people were coming and being baptized.
24For John had not yet been thrown into prison.
25Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.
26And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”
27John answered and said, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
29The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
30He must increase, but I must decrease.
31The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is of the earth and speaks from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.
33Whoever accepts his testimony has set his seal that God is true.
34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.
35The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
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