9. Nicodemus said to Him, “How can this be?”
10. Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, but you do not know these things?
11. Truly, truly I say to you, We speak of what We know and bear witness of what We have seen, but you do not receive Our testimony.
12. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13. No one has ascended to heaven except He who descended from heaven, even the Son of Man who is in heaven.
14. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15. that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but may have eternal life.
16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
17. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18. He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19. This is the verdict, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be revealed that his deeds have been done in God.”
22. After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. He remained with them there and baptized.
23. John also was baptizing in Aenon toward Salim, because much water was there. And people came and were baptized.
24. For John had not yet been put in prison.
25. Then a dispute arose between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about ceremonial cleansing.
26. They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore witness, look, He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
27. John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.