John 3
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Jesus and Nicodemus
1There was a man from the Pharisees # Mk 7:3 named Nicodemus, # Jn 3:4,9; 7:50; 19:39 a ruler # Lk 8:41; 12:58 of the Jews. 2This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, # Jn 11:8 we know that You have come from God # Mk 1:45 as a teacher, # Mk 4:38; Eph 4:11 for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.” # Ex 3:12; Jn 15:24; Ac 10:38; Rv 21:3
3Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, # The same Gk word can mean again or from above (also in v. 7). # 1Pt 1:3; 1Jn 2:29 he cannot see the kingdom of God.” # Mk 1:15; 9:1
4“But 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, “I assure you: Unless someone is born # Mk 9:43 of water and the Spirit, # Or spirit, or wind ; the Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context. # Ezk 36:25-27; Ac 22:16; Ti 3:5 he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6Whatever is born of the flesh # Php 3:3 is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit # Jn 1:33 is spirit. 7Do not be amazed that I told you that you # The pronoun is pl in Gk. must be born # 1Pt 1:3 again. 8The wind # The Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context. blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. # Jn 8:14 So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” # 1Co 2:13-16
9“How can these things be? ” asked Nicodemus.
10“Are you a teacher # Or the teacher of Israel and don’t know these things? ” Jesus replied. 11“I assure you: # Jn 1:51; Rv 22:21 We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you # In Gk, the word you is pl here and throughout v. 12. do not accept Our testimony. # The pronouns we and our refer to Jesus and His authority to speak for the Father. 12If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven? 13No one has ascended # Jn 20:17 into heaven # 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 # Jn 6:38; 8:23 — the Son of Man. # Other mss add who is in heaven # Mk 2:10 14Just as Moses # Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 lifted up the snake in the wilderness, # Nm 21:4-9 so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15so that everyone who believes in Him will # Other mss add not perish, but have eternal life. # Mk 10:17; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48
16“For God loved # 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: # The Gk word houtos, commonly translated in Jn 3:16 as “so” or “so much” occurs over 200 times in the NT. Almost without exception it is an adverb of manner, not degree (for example, see Mt 1:18). It only means “so much” when modifying an adjective (see Gl 3:3; Rv 16:18). Manner seems primarily in view in Jn 3:16, which explains the HCSB‘s rendering. He gave His One and Only # 1Jn 4:9 Son, # Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. # Jn 12:25; Rm 5:8; 1Jn 3:16; 4:9-10 17For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn # Jn 8:11 the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, # Mt 12:41; Mk 16:16 because he has not believed in the name # Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23 of the One and Only Son # Jn 5:19 of God.
19“This, then, is the judgment: The light # Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46 has come into the world, # Jn 18:37; 1Jn 2:8 and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20For everyone who practices wicked things hates # Lk 6:27; 19:14 the light and avoids it, # Lit and does not come to the light so that his deeds # Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14-26 may not be exposed. 21But anyone who lives by # Lit who does the truth comes to the light, so that his works # Jn 5:36 may be shown to be accomplished by God.” # It is possible that Jesus’ words end at v. 15. Ancient Gk did not have quotation marks.
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 # 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. # Mk 1:14
25Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples # 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 # Other mss read and the Jews about purification. # Lv 13–14; Heb 1:3 26So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, # Jn 11:8 the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, # Mk 10:1; Lk 3:3 is baptizing — and everyone is flocking to Him.” # Mk 1:45
27John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, # Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’ # Lk 1:17 29He who has the bride # Rv 21:2 is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly # Lit with joy rejoices at the groom’s voice. So this joy # Jn 15:11 of mine is complete. 30He must increase, but I must decrease.”
The One from Heaven
31The One who comes from above # Jms 1:17 is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. # Or of earthly things The One who comes from heaven is above all. # Jn 8:23; 1Jn 4:5-6 32He testifies # Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5 to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony. 33The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true. # 1Jn 5:20 34For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He # Other mss read since God gives the Spirit # Jn 1:33 without measure. 35The Father loves the Son # Jn 5:20; 10:17; 1Co 13:1 and has given all things into His hands. # Jn 5:19 36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him. # Mk 16:16
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Yoḥanan (John) 3
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1And there was a man of the Pharisees, Naḵdimon was his name, a ruler of the Yehuḏim.
2This one came to יהושע by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from Elohim, for no one is able to do these signs You do if Elohim is not with him.”
3יהושע answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he is unable to see#Or perceive the reign of Elohim.”
4Naḵdimon said to Him, “How is a man able to be born when he is old? Is he able to enter into his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
5יהושע answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is unable to enter into the reign of Elohim.
6“That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You have to be born from above.’ ”
8The wind#Wind and Spirit have the same underlying Hebrew and Greek words. blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”
9Naḵdimon answered and said to Him, “How is it possible for this to take place?”
10יהושע answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Yisra’ĕl, and do not know this?
11“Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what We know and witness what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
12If you do not believe when I spoke to you about earthly matters, how are you going to believe when I speak to you about the heavenly matters?”
13“And no one has gone up into the heaven except He who came down from the heaven – the Son of Aḏam.
14And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,”
15so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
16“For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
17“For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18“He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim.
19“And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
20For everyone who is practising evil matters hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
21But the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works are clearly seen, that they have been wrought in Elohim.
22After this, יהושע and His taught ones came into the land of Yehuḏah, and He remained there with them, and was immersing.
23And Yoḥanan was also immersing in Ayin near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. And they were coming and were being immersed,
24for Yoḥanan had not yet been put into prison.
25Then a dispute arose between some of Yoḥanan’s taught ones and the Yehuḏim about cleansing,
26and they came to Yoḥanan and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Yardĕn, to whom you have witnessed, see, He is immersing, and all are coming to Him!”
27Yoḥanan answered and said, “No man is able to receive any matter unless it is given to him from the heaven.
28“You yourselves are witnesses for me that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but I am sent ahead of Him.’
29“He that has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. So this joy of mine is complete.
30“It is right for Him to increase, but me to decrease.
31“He who comes from above is over all, he who is from the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from the heaven is over all.
32“And what He has seen and heard, that He witnesses. And no one receives His witness.
33“He who receives His witness has set his seal that Elohim is true.
34“For He whom Elohim has sent speaks the Words of Elohim, for Elohim does not give the Spirit by measure.
35“The Father loves the Son, and has given all into His hand.
36He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.
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