John 3:11–28

11 “Truly I tell you,ab we speak what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony. 12 If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13 No one has ascendedac into heavenad except the one who descended from heavenae—the Son of Man.E,af

14 “Just as Mosesag lifted up the snake in the wilderness,ah so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in him mayF have eternal life.ai 16 For God lovedaj the world in this way:G He gaveH his one and onlyak Son,al so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.am 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemnan the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,ao because he has not believed in the nameap of the one and only Sonaq of God. 19 This is the judgment: The lightar has come into the world,as and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hatesat the light and avoids it,I so that his deedsau may not be exposed. 21 But anyone who lives byJ the truth comes to the light, so that his worksav may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST

22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent time with them and baptized.

23 Johnaw also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized, 24 since John had not yet been thrown into prison.ax

25 Then a dispute arose between John’s disciplesay and a JewK about purification.az 26 So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi,ba the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan,bb is baptizing—and everyone is going to him.”bc

27 John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,bd but I’ve been sent ahead of him.’be

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ab	Jn 1:51 Re 22:21
ac	Jn 20:17
ad	Dt 30:12 Jn 6:62 Ac 2:34 Ro 10:6 1 Co 15:47 Eph 4:8–10 Re 11:12
ae	Jn 6:38 Jn 8:23
E	Other mss add who is in heaven
af	Mk 2:10
ag	Ps 77:20 Mt 8:4 Heb 3:2
ah	Nu 21:4–9
F	Other mss add not perish, but
ai	Mk 10:17 Jn 12:25 Ac 13:48
aj	Jn 12:43 1 Co 13:1 Ga 2:20 Col 1:13 Col 3:12 1 Th 1:4 2 Th 2:13 2 Th 2:16 1 Jn 4:7–12 Jud 1
G	Or this much
H	Or For in this way God loved the world, and so he gave, or For God so loved the world that he gave
ak	1 Jn 4:9
al	Jn 5:19 Heb 1:2
am	Jn 12:25 Ro 5:8 1 Jn 3:16 1 Jn 4:9–10
an	Jn 8:11
ao	Mt 12:41 Mk 16:16
ap	Jn 10:25 1 Jn 3:23
aq	Jn 5:19
ar	Ps 36:9 Jn 12:46
as	Jn 18:37 1 Jn 2:8
at	Lk 6:27 Lk 19:14
I	Lit and does not come to the light
au	Mk 14:6 Ga 3:10 Jas 2:14–26
J	Lit who does
av	Jn 5:36
aw	Mk 1:4
ax	Mk 1:14
ay	Mt 9:14 Mt 11:2 Mt 14:12 Mk 2:18 Mk 6:29 Lk 5:33 Lk 7:18–19 Lk 11:1 Jn 1:35 Jn 1:37 Jn 6:3
K	Other mss read and the Jews
az	Le 13–14 Heb 1:3
ba	Jn 11:8
bb	Mk 10:1 Lk 3:3
bc	Mk 1:45
bd	Mt 1:17 Eph 5:2
be	Lk 1:17