John 3

¹And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a Prince of the Jews.

²This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come from God a Master; for no man can do these signs which thou doest, unless God be with him.

³Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, Amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

⁴Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born, when he is old? can he enter into his mother's womb again & be born?

⁵Jesus answered: Amen, Amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

⁶That which is born of the flesh, is flesh: & that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

⁷Marvel not, that I said to thee, You must be born again.

⁸The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered, & said to him: How can these things be done?

¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to him: Thou art a Master in Israel, and art thou ignorant of these things?

¹¹Amen, Amen I say to thee, that we speak that which we know, and that which we have seen we testify, and our testimony you receive not.

¹²If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how if I shall speak to you heavenly things, will you believe?

¹³And no man hath ascended into Heaven, but he that descended from Heaven, the Son of man which is in Heaven.

¹⁴And as Moyses exalted the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be exalted:

¹⁵that every one which believeth in him, perish not, but may have life everlasting.

¹⁶For so God loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son; that every one that believeth in him, perish not, but may have life everlasting.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

¹⁸He that believeth in him, is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the judgement: because the light is come into the world, and men have loved the darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

²⁰For every one that doeth ill, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be controlled.

²¹But he that doeth verity, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they were done in God.

²²After these things Jesus came and his Disciples into the country of Jewry; & there he abode with them, and baptized.

²³And John also was baptizing in Ænon beside Salim; because there was much water there, and they came, and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵And there rose a question of John's Disciples with the Jews concerning purification.

²⁶And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou didst give testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all come to him.

²⁷John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from Heaven,

²⁸Yourselves do bear me witness, that I said, I am not Christ; but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy for the voice of the bridegroom. This my joy therefore is filled.

³⁰He must increase, and I diminish.

³¹He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from Heaven, is above all.

³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and his testimony no man receiveth.

³³He that hath received his testimony, hath signed that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God. For God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

³⁵The Father loveth the Son: & he hath given all things in his hand.

³⁶He that believeth in the Son: hath life everlasting: but he that is incredulous to the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God remaineth upon him.