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    John · 36 verses

    John 3

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    At Aenon, baptism is arranged around the water supply; at night, an old man asks whether he can climb back into his mother.

    A night conversation and the Lightvv. 1–21

    Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night, carrying a compliment about signs and a title—“Israel’s teacher”—but Jesus answers with birth, wind, heaven, Moses’ lifted snake, and the strange insistence that the Light has come into the world. Nicodemus’s question is wonderfully solid: “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?” Jesus does not tidy the misunderstanding. He presses on, speaking of water and the Spirit, of belief and condemnation, and of deeds that prefer darkness lest they be exposed.

    Two baptisms, plenty of water, and John’s joyvv. 22–36

    Jesus and His disciples go into the Judean countryside, while John baptizes at Aenon near Salim for the eminently practical reason that the water is plentiful there. A dispute over ceremonial washing sends John’s disciples to report that everyone is going to Jesus. John answers by calling himself the friend of the bridegroom, not the bridegroom, and gives the chapter its neatest downward movement: “He must increase; I must decrease.” The final words rise again into the language of heaven, testimony, the Son, and the Spirit without limit.

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    1. John 3:1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

    2. John 3:2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

    3. John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

    4. John 3:4“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

    5. John 3:5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

    6. John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

    7. John 3:7Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’

    8. John 3:8The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

    9. John 3:9“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

    10. John 3:10“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?

    11. John 3:11Truly, 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.

    12. John 3:12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

    13. John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

    14. John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

    15. John 3:15that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

    16. John 3:16For 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.

    17. John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

    18. John 3:18Whoever 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.

    19. John 3:19And 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.

    20. John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

    21. John 3:21But 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.”

    22. John 3:22After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.

    23. John 3:23Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

    24. John 3:24(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

    25. John 3:25Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.

    26. John 3:26So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”

    27. John 3:27John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

    28. John 3:28You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.’

    29. John 3:29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

    30. John 3:30He must increase; I must decrease.

    31. John 3:31The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

    32. John 3:32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

    33. John 3:33Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.

    34. John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

    35. John 3:35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

    36. John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

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    • 16Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    • 161 John 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
    • 16Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
    • 16John 3:15that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
    • 16John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
    • 161 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
    • 161 Timothy 1:15–16This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
    • 162 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
    • 162 Corinthians 5:19–21that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
    • 16Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
    • 16Genesis 22:12“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
    • 16Mark 12:6Finally, having one beloved son, he sent him to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
    • 5Ezekiel 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
    • 32 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
    • 14Numbers 21:7–9Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
    • 3John 3:5–6Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

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