John 3

Jesus and Nicodemus

1There was a man from the Pharisees # 3:1 Mk 7:3 named Nicodemus, # 3:1 Jn 3:4,9; 7:50; 19:39 a ruler # 3:1 Lk 8:41; 12:58 of the Jews. 2This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, # 3:2 Jn 11:8 we know that you are a teacher # 3:2 Mk 4:38; Eph 4:11 who has come from God, # 3:2 Mk 1:45 for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.” # 3:2 Ex 3:12; Jn 15:24; Ac 10:38; Rv 21:3

3Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, # 3:3 Or from above, also in v. 7,# 3:3 1Pt 1:3; 1Jn 2:29 he cannot see the kingdom of God.” # 3:3 Mk 1:15; 9:1

4“How can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born? ”

5Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born # 3:5 Mk 9:43 of water and the Spirit, # 3:5 Ezk 36:25–27; Ac 22:16; Ti 3:5 he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6Whatever is born of the flesh # 3:6 Php 3:3 is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit # 3:6 Jn 1:33 is spirit. 7Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born # 3:7 1Pt 1:3 again. 8The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. # 3:8 Jn 8:14 So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” # 3:8 1Co 2:13–16

9“How can these things be? ” asked Nicodemus.

10 “Are you a teacher # 3:10 Or the teacher of Israel and don’t know these things? ” Jesus replied. 11“Truly I tell you, # 3:11 Jn 1:51; Rv 22:21 we speak what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony. 12If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ascended # 3:13 Jn 20:17 into heaven # 3:13 Dt 30:12; Jn 6:62; Ac 2:34; Rm 10:6; 1Co 15:47; Eph 4:8–10; Rv 11:12 except the one who descended from heaven # 3:13 Jn 6:38; 8:23 — the Son of Man. # 3:13 Other mss add who is in heaven,# 3:13 Mk 2:10

14 “Just as Moses # 3:14 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 lifted up the snake in the wilderness, # 3:14 Nm 21:4–9 so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15so that everyone who believes in him may # 3:15 Other mss add not perish, but have eternal life. # 3:15 Mk 10:17; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48 16For God loved # 3:16 Jn 12:43; 1Co 13:1; Gl 2:20; Col 1:13; 3:12; 1Th 1:4; 2Th 2:13,16; 1Jn 4:7–12; Jd 1 the world in this way: # 3:16 Or this much He gave # 3:16 Or For in this way God loved the world, and so he gave, or For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only # 3:16 1Jn 4:9 Son, # 3:16 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. # 3:16 Jn 12:25; Rm 5:8; 1Jn 3:16; 4:9–10 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn # 3:17 Jn 8:11 the world, but to save the world through him. 18Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, # 3:18 Mt 12:41; Mk 16:16 because he has not believed in the name # 3:18 Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23 of the one and only Son # 3:18 Jn 5:19 of God. 19This is the judgment: The light # 3:19 Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46 has come into the world, # 3:19 Jn 18:37; 1Jn 2:8 and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20For everyone who does evil hates # 3:20 Lk 6:27; 19:14 the light and avoids it, # 3:20 Lit and does not come to the light so that his deeds # 3:20 Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26 may not be exposed. 21But anyone who lives by # 3:21 Lit who does the truth comes to the light, so that his works # 3:21 Jn 5:36 may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

Jesus and John the Baptist

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

23John # 3:23 Mk 1:4 also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized, 24since John had not yet been thrown into prison. # 3:24 Mk 1:14

25Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples # 3:25 Mt 9:14; 11:2; 14:12; Mk 2:18; 6:29; Lk 5:33; 7:18–19; 11:1; Jn 1:35,37; 6:3 and a Jew # 3:25 Other mss read and the Jews about purification. # 3:25 Lv 13–14; Heb 1:3 26So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, # 3:26 Jn 11:8 the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, # 3:26 Mk 10:1; Lk 3:3 is baptizing — and everyone is going to him.” # 3:26 Mk 1:45

27John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, # 3:28 Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 but I’ve been sent ahead of him.’ # 3:28 Lk 1:17 29He who has the bride # 3:29 Rv 21:2 is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly # 3:29 Lit with joy rejoices at the groom’s voice. So this joy # 3:29 Jn 15:11 of mine is complete. 30He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The One from Heaven

31The one who comes from above # 3:31 Jms 1:17 is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. # 3:31 Or of earthly things The one who comes from heaven is above all. # 3:31 Jn 8:23; 1Jn 4:5–6 32He testifies # 3:32 Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5 to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony. 33The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true. # 3:33 1Jn 5:20 34For the one whom God sent speaks God’s words, since he # 3:34 Other mss read since God gives the Spirit # 3:34 Jn 1:33 without measure. 35The Father loves the Son # 3:35 Jn 5:20; 10:17; 1Co 13:1 and has given all things into his hands. # 3:35 Jn 5:19 36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son # 3:36 Or refuses to believe in the Son, or disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him. # 3:36 Mk 16:16

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Yochanan 3

1Now there was a man of the Perushim. His name was Rav Nakdimon, a#3:1 Sanhedrist katzin (leader) of the Yehudim. 2This one came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach under cover of lailah and said to him, Rabbi, we have da'as that you are a moreh from Hashem having come, for no one is able these otot (miraculous signs) to do, which you do, unless Hashem is with him. 3In reply, he said to him, Omein, omein, I say to you, unless someone is born anew,#3:3 born again, Yn 1:13; Dt 10:16; 30:6; Jer 4:4; Isa 52:1; Ezek 44:7,9 he is not able to see the Malchut Hashem. 4Rav Nakdimon says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How is a man, being old, able to be born? Surely he is not able into the womb of immo a second time to enter and to be born? 5In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, omein, I say to you: unless someone is born of mayim#3:5 Ps 36:9 [10] and Ruach Hakodesh,#3:5 Ezek 36:25-27; 37:14 he is not able to enter into the Malchut Hashem.#3:5 Lk 17:21 6That which is born of basar is basar, and that which is born of the Ruach is ruach. 7Do not marvel that I said to you, It is necessary for you to be born again, born anew. 8The ruach (wind, Spirit) blows where it wishes, and the sound of it you hear, but you do not have da'as of where it comes from and where it goes;#3:8 Koh 11:5 so it is with everyone having been born of the Ruach Hakodesh.#3:8 Ezek 37:9

9In reply, Rav Nakdimon said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How is it possible for these things to happen? 10In reply, he said to him, You hold the teaching office of rabbi, of moreh b'Yisroel and of these things you do not have da'as? 11Omein, omein, I say to you, that of which we have da'as we speak, and of that which we have seen, we give solemn edut (testimony), and the solemn edut of us you [pl.] do not receive. 12If I told you [pl.] about things of the Olam Hazeh and you have no emunah, how will you have emunah if I tell you about the things of the Olam Haba? 13And no one has ascended into Shomayim except the one having descended out of Shomayim, the Bar Enosh.#3:13 Dan 7:13-14; Prov 30:4; Dt 30:12 14And as Moshe lifted up the nachash in the wilderness,#3:14 Num 21:8-9 so it is necessary for there to be a hagbah (lifting up) of the Bar Enosh.#3:14 Ps 22; Isa 53 15That everyone having emunah#3:15 Gn 15:1-6; Num 14:11; Ex 14:31 in him may have Chayyei Olam.#3:15 Dan 12:2; Isa 52:13

16For Hashem so had ahavah (agape) for the Olam Hazeh that Hashem gave the matanah (gift)#3:16 Isa 9:6 [5] of Hashemʼs Ben Yechid,#3:16 Gn 22:12; Prov 30:4; 8:30 so that whosoever has emunah in him may not be ne'evad (lost, perish, be ruined with destruction), but find Chayyei Olam.#3:16 Dan 12:2 17For Hashem did not send the Ben HaElohim into the Olam Hazeh that he might judge the Olam Hazeh, but that the Olam Hazeh might be brought to the Geulah (Redemption) of the Olam Haba through him (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach).#3:17 Isa 53:11 18The one of emunah who is mekabel Moshiach (accepting the person of the Bar Enosh, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) is not judged; but the one without emunah who is not mekabel Moshiach, already has been judged and given the psak din (verdict) of “condemned,” because he has no emunah in the Shem of the Ben Yachid of Hashem. 19And this is the psak din, that the Ohr has come into the Olam Hazeh, and Bnei Adam had ahavah for the choshech rather than for the Ohr, for their ma'asim were ra'im (evil).#3:19 Ps 52:3 20For everyone walking in the derech resha'im has sin'as chinom (baseless hatred) for the Ohr and does not come to the Ohr, lest his ma'asim be exposed.#3:20 Ps 1:6; Job 24:13-17 21But the one doing HaEmes comes to the Ohr that his ma'asim hamitzot may be manifested, that they have been wrought in Hashem.

22After these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and his talmidim came into the land of Yehudah, and there he was staying with them and was giving the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah. 23And Yochanan was also giving the tevilah near Shalem at Einayim, because there was plenty of water there for a mikveh, and the Yehudim were coming and submitting to the tevilah. 24Yochanan had not yet been incarcerated in the beit hasohar (prison).

25There was then a discussion of Yochananʼs talmidim with one of the Yehudim about the subject of tohorah (purification). 26And they came to Yochanan and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Yarden, the one to whom you have given solemn edut, hinei, this one gives the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah and kol Bnei Adam come to him. 27In reply, Yochanan said, A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from Shomayim. 28You yourselves stand as eidus (witness) to me, that I said I am not the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, but I have been sent gevorn forois before him (forerunner).#3:28 Mal 3:1 29The one having the Kallah (bride) is the Choson (Bridegroom),#3:29 i.e., Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach but the Shoshvin (the Chosonʼs best man), the one having stood and hearing him with simcha, rejoices because of the kol (voice) of the Choson (Bridegroom). Therefore, this simcha of mine has been made sheleimah (complete). 30It is necessary for that one#3:30 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to increase, but for me to decrease.

31The one coming from above (Moshiach) is over all; the one being from Olam Hazeh is of Olam Hazeh and of the Olam Hazeh he speaks; Hu Habah (He who comes),#3:31 i.e., Moshiach from Shomayim is over all. 32Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gives solemn edut (testimony) to that which he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his eidus. 33The one who is mekabel Moshiachʼs eidus has thereby set his chotam of attestation that Hashem is Emes. 34For he whom Hashem sent speaks the Divrei Hashem, for He gives the Ruach Hakodesh without measure.#3:34 Isa 42:1 35Elohim HaAv (the Father) has ahavah (love) for HaBen#3:35 Prov 30:4; 8:30 and has given all things into his hand. 36The one with emunah in the Ben [HaElohim] has Chayyei Olam; but the one disobeying the Ben [HaElohim] will not see Chayyim, but the Charon Af Hashem remains on him.

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