John 3:10–24 · BSB
3:10
“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
3:11
Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
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3:12
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
3:14
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
3:15
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
3:18
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
3:21
But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
3:22
After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
3:23
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
3:24
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
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