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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 3:12 Catholic Bible: You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then, when I tell you about the things of heaven? </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/3-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/3-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/3-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/3-11.htm" title="John 3:11">◄</a> John 3:12 <a href="../john/3-13.htm" title="John 3:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then, when I tell you about the things of heaven? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />If you don't believe when I talk to you about things on earth, how can you possibly believe if I talk to you about things in heaven? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?</p><p class="hdg">earthly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/3-3.htm">John 3:3,5,8</a> Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/3-1.htm">1 Corinthians 3:1,2</a> And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/5-11.htm">Hebrews 5:11</a> Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-1.htm">1 Peter 2:1-3</a> Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, . . . </p><p class="hdg">heavenly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/3-13.htm">John 3:13-17,31-36</a> And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/1-1.htm">John 1:1-14</a> In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/2-7.htm">1 Corinthians 2:7-9</a> But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/3-16.htm">1 Timothy 3:16</a> And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-10.htm">1 John 4:10</a> In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/3.htm">Jesus and Nicodemus</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?</span> <span class="reftext">13</span>And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/3-11.htm">John 3:11</a></span><br />Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/3-13.htm">John 3:13</a></span><br />And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/luke/24-25.htm">Belief</a> <a href="/john/1-50.htm">Believe</a> <a href="/luke/24-5.htm">Earth</a> <a 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