9. Naḵdimon answered and said to Him, “How is it possible for this to take place?”
10. יהושע answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Yisra’ĕl, and do not know this?
11. “Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what We know and witness what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
12. “If you do not believe when I spoke to you about earthly matters, how are you going to believe when I speak to you about the heavenly matters?
13. “And no one has gone up into the heaven except He who came down from the heaven – the Son of Aḏam.
14. “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,
15. so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
16. “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
17. “For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18. “He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim.
19. “And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
20. “For everyone who is practising evil matters hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.