1 Fariseusten joukossa oli Nikodemos-niminen mies, juutalaisten neuvoston jäsen.
6 Mikä on syntynyt lihasta, on lihaa, mikä on syntynyt Hengestä, on henkeä.
7 Älä kummeksu sitä, että sanoin sinulle: 'Teidän täytyy syntyä uudesti.'
12 Jos te ette usko, kun puhun teille tämän maailman asioista, kuinka voisitte uskoa, kun puhun taivaallisista!
13 Kukaan ei ole noussut taivaaseen, paitsi hän, joka on taivaasta tänne tullut: Ihmisen Poika.
15 jotta jokainen, joka uskoo häneen, saisi iankaikkisen elämän.
16 Jumala on rakastanut maailmaa niin paljon, että antoi ainoan Poikansa, jottei yksikään, joka häneen uskoo, joutuisi kadotukseen, vaan saisi iankaikkisen elämän.
18 Sitä, joka uskoo häneen, ei tuomita, mutta se, joka ei usko, on jo tuomittu, koska hän ei uskonut Jumalan ainoaan Poikaan.
19 Ja tuomio on tämä: valo on tullut maailmaan, mutta pahojen tekojensa tähden ihmiset ovat valinneet sen asemesta pimeyden.
20 Se, joka tekee pahaa, kaihtaa valoa; hän ei tule valoon, etteivät hänen tekonsa paljastuisi.
22 Tämän jälkeen Jeesus lähti opetuslapsineen Juudeaan. Hän viipyi siellä heidän kanssaan jonkin aikaa ja kastoi ihmisiä.
23 Myös Johannes kastoi edelleen; hän oli Ainonissa, Salimin lähellä, missä oli runsaasti vettä, ja ihmisiä tuli sinne kastettaviksi.
24 Johannes ei näet vielä ollut joutunut vankilaan.
25 Kerran Johanneksen opetuslapset kiistelivät erään juutalaisen kanssa puhdistautumisesta.
28 Te voitte itse todistaa, että minä sanoin: 'En minä ole Messias. Minut on lähetetty kulkemaan hänen edellään.'
29 Sulhanen on se, jolla on morsian. Mutta sulhasen ystävä seisoo hänen vieressään ja kuuntelee, mitä hän puhuu, ja iloitsee suuresti sulhasta kuunnellessaan. Niin iloitsen minäkin, ja iloni on nyt täydellinen.
31 Hän, joka tulee ylhäältä, on kaikkien yläpuolella. Joka on maasta, on maan tomua ja puhuu tämän maailman asioista. Hän, joka tulee taivaasta,
32 todistaa siitä, mitä on nähnyt ja kuullut, mutta kukaan ei ota vastaan hänen todistustaan.
33 Joka ottaa hänen todistuksensa vastaan, tunnustaa, että Jumala puhuu totta,
34 sillä hän, jonka Jumala on lähettänyt, puhuu julki Jumalan sanat. Ei Jumala anna Henkeään määrämitalla.
35 Isä rakastaa Poikaa ja on antanut kaiken hänen valtaansa.
36 Sillä, joka uskoo Poikaan, on ikuinen elämä, mutta joka ei tottele Poikaa, se ei pääse näkemään elämää, vaan Jumalan viha pysyy hänen yllään.
1 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,
2 this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.`
3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;`
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?`
5 Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.`
9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?`
10 Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
11 `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;
12 if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?
13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
14 `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,
16 for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;
23 and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --
24 for John was not yet cast into the prison --
25 there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,
26 and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.`
27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;
29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.
30 `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;
31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.
32 `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;
33 he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;
34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;
35 the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;
36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.`