9. Nicodemus responded and said to him, "How are these things able to be accomplished?"
10. Jesus responded and said to him: "You are a teacher in Israel, and you are ignorant of these things?
11. Amen, amen, I say to you, that we speak about what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. But you do not accept our testimony.
12. If I have spoken to you about earthly things, and you have not believed, then how will you believe, if I will speak to you about heavenly things?
13. And no one has ascended to heaven, except the one who descended from heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven.
14. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so also must the Son of man be lifted up,
15. so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.