17. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18. Whoever believes in him isn’t judged; whoever doesn’t believe in him is already judged, because they don’t believe in the name of God’s only Son.
19. "This is the basis for judgment: The light came into the world, and people loved darkness more than the light, for their actions are evil.
20. All who do wicked things hate the light and don’t come to the light for fear that their actions will be exposed to the light.
21. Whoever does the truth comes to the light so that it can be seen that their actions were done in God."
22. After this Jesus and his disciples went into Judea, where he spent some time with them and was baptizing.
23. John was baptizing at Aenon near Salem because there was a lot of water there, and people were coming to him and being baptized. (
24. John hadn’t yet been thrown into prison.)