# John 3

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/3

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Now there was a man from the Pharisees, Nicodemus by name, a ruler of the Jews.
2. He came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can perform these signs that you perform unless God is with him."
3. Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4. Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born."
5. Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one is born of water and spirit, one cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
6. What has been born of flesh is flesh, and what has been born of spirit is spirit.
7. Do not be amazed that I told you, You must be born from above.
8. The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes or where it goes; thus it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
9. Nicodemus replied to him, “How can these things take place?”
10. Jesus answered him, "You are Israel's teacher, and do you not know these things?"
11. Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak what we know and testify to what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13. And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man.
14. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
15. so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16. For God loved the world in this way: he gave his only Son, that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world that he might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18. The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged because he has not believed in the name of God's only Son.
19. This is the judgment: light has come into the world, yet people loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.
20. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.
21. But whoever practices the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be revealed, because they have been performed in God.
22. After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the Judean countryside, and there he stayed with them and baptized.
23. John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because abundant water was there, and people kept coming and being baptized.
24. For John had not yet been thrown into prison.
25. Therefore a question arose between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.
26. And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—look, he baptizes, and all are coming to him."
27. John answered, "No man can receive anything unless it has been given him from heaven."
28. You yourselves testify to me that I said, "I am not the Christ, but rather that I have been sent ahead of him."
29. The one who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the bridegroom's friend—who stands listening to him—rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice; therefore this joy of mine has been fulfilled.
30. He must become greater, but I must become less.
31. The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
32. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.
33. He who has received his testimony has sealed that God is true.
34. For the one whom God sent speaks God's words, for God gives the Spirit without measure.
35. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, God's wrath remains on him.

## Nearby chapters

[John 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/2.md)
[John 4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/4.md)

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