“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

He must increase, but I must decrease.”

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

“Are you a teacher of Israel and don’t know these things?” Jesus replied.

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew about purification.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands.

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.