17. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them!
18. No one who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn't have faith in him has already been condemned for not having faith in God's only Son.
19. The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light.
20. People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.
21. But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.
22. Later, Jesus and his disciples went to Judea, where he stayed with them for a while and was baptizing people.
23-24. John had not yet been put in jail. He was at Aenon near Salim, where there was a lot of water, and people were coming there for John to baptize them.
25. John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.
26. They went to John and said, “Rabbi, you spoke about a man when you were with him east of the Jordan. He is now baptizing people, and everyone is going to him.”