¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^s so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^f^t ¹⁵that everyone who believes^u may have eternal life in him.”^g^v

¹⁶For God so loved^w the world that he gave^x his one and only Son,^y that whoever believes^z in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^a ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world^b to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.^c ¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not condemned,^d but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.^e ¹⁹This is the verdict: Light^f has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.^g ²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.^h ²¹But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John Testifies Again About Jesus

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

Read in Logos

John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Footnotes

fThe Greek for lifted up also means exalted.
gSome interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.

Cross references

s Nu 21:8, 9
tSee Jn 12:32
uver 16, 36; Ge 15:6; Nu 14:11; Mt 27:42; Mk 1:15; Jn 1:7, 12; 2:23; 5:24; 7:38; 20:29; Ac 13:39; 16:31; Ro 3:22; 10:9, 10; 1 Jn 5:1, 5, 10
vver 16, 36; See Mt 25:46; Jn 20:31
w Ro 5:8; Eph 2:4; 1 Jn 4:9, 10
x Isa 9:6; Ro 8:32
y Ge 22:12; Jn 1:18
zSee ver 15
aver 36; Jn 6:29, 40; 11:25, 26
b Jn 6:29, 57; 10:36; 11:42; 17:8, 21; 20:21
c Isa 53:11; See Mt 1:21; See Lk 2:11; 19:10; Jn 1:29; 12:47; See Ro 11:14; 1 Ti 1:15; 2:5, 6; 1 Jn 2:2; 3:5
d Jn 5:24
e Jn 1:18; 1 Jn 4:9
fSee Jn 1:4
g Ps 52:3; Jn 7:7
h Eph 5:11, 13
i Jn 4:2