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Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>again.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="red">“Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness of what we have seen, and you do not accept our witness.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">“For God <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>so loved the world, that He gave His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>only begotten Son of God.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light lest his deeds be exposed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been done by God.”</span> <p class="hdg">John the Baptist’s Last Witness</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He was spending time with them and baptizing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and <i>people</i> were coming and were being baptized— <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>for John had not yet been thrown into prison. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore there arose a debate between John’s disciples and a Jew about purification. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You yourselves <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He must increase, but I must decrease. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>What He has seen and heard, of that He bears witness; and no one receives His witness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He who has received His witness has set his seal to <i>this</i>, that God is true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>for He gives the Spirit without measure. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>attesting miracles</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>from above</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>from above</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>in this way</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>unique</i>, only one of His kind<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>unique</i>, only one of His kind<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Lit <i>testify for me</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">34</span> Lit <i>because He does not give the Spirit by measure</i><br><span class="fnverse">36</span> Or <i>believe</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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