The Holy Bible, New Living Translation audiobook, narrated in its entirety by Theon Hill, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communications at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL. Dr. Hill offers up a fresh, energetic, and passionate reading of the bestselling version of the Holy Bible.

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 <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"> 1There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. 2After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. &#8220;Rabbi,&#8221; he said, &#8220;we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3Jesus replied, &#8220;I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,#3:3 Or born from above; also in 3:7. you cannot see the Kingdom of God.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; exclaimed Nicodemus. &#8220;How can an old man go back into his mother&#8217;s womb and be born again?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 5Jesus replied, &#8220;I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.#3:5 Or and spirit. The Greek word for Spirit can also be translated wind; see 3:8. 6Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.#3:6 Greek what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7So don&#8217;t be surprised when I say, &#8216;You#3:7 The Greek word for you is plural; also in 3:12. must be born again.&#8217; 8The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can&#8217;t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can&#8217;t explain how people are born of the Spirit.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9&#8220;How are these things possible?&#8221; Nicodemus asked.</div><div class="p"> 10Jesus replied, &#8220;You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don&#8217;t understand these things? 11I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won&#8217;t believe our testimony. 12But if you don&#8217;t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man#3:13 Some manuscripts add who lives in heaven. &#8220;Son of Man&#8221; is a title Jesus used for himself. has come down from heaven. 14And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.#3:15 Or everyone who believes will have eternal life in him.</div><div class="p"> 16 &#8220;For this is how God loved the world: He gave # 3:16 Or For God loved the world so much that he gave. his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.</div><div class="p"> 18 &#8220;There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God&#8217;s one and only Son. 19And the judgment is based on this fact: God&#8217;s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. 20All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. 21But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.#3:21 Or can see God at work in what he is doing.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">John the Baptist Exalts Jesus</div><div class="m"> 22Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them there, baptizing people.</div><div class="p"> 23At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to him for baptism. 24(This was before John was thrown into prison.) 25A debate broke out between John&#8217;s disciples and a certain Jew#3:25 Some manuscripts read some Jews. over ceremonial cleansing. 26So John&#8217;s disciples came to him and said, &#8220;Rabbi, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you identified as the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going to him instead of coming to us.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 27John replied, &#8220;No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven. 28You yourselves know how plainly I told you, &#8216;I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.&#8217; 29It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom&#8217;s friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. 30He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.</div><div class="p"> 31&#8220;He has come from above and is greater than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but he has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else.#3:31 Some manuscripts do not include and is greater than anyone else. 32He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what he tells them! 33Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true. 34For he is sent by God. He speaks God&#8217;s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands. 36And anyone who believes in God&#8217;s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn&#8217;t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God&#8217;s angry judgment.&#8221;</div>
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 Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”
“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.
Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things? I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony. But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven. And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them there, baptizing people.
At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to him for baptism. (This was before John was thrown into prison.) A debate broke out between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over ceremonial cleansing. So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Rabbi, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you identified as the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going to him instead of coming to us.”
John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven. You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’ It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom’s friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.
“He has come from above and is greater than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but he has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else. He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what he tells them! Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true. For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit. The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands. And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”

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