John 3

John 3:1

• There was a
• Now there was a

• man
• man of the Pharisees,
• man of the Pharisees
• Pharisee

• named
• called

• Nicodemus, a

• ruler of the
• member of the Jewish
• leader of the

• Jews.
• Jews:
• Jews;
• Jews,

John 3:2

• He
• This man
• this man
• One night he
• One night Nicodemus

• came to

• Jesus by
• Jesus at
• him at
• Him at

• night and
• night, and

• said to

• Him, “
• him, “
• him: “

• Rabbi, we

• know that
• know

• you
• You

• are a

• teacher
• teacher who

• come from
• has come from
• sent by
• sent from

• God. For no
• God; for no
• God, for no
• God. No
• God; no

• one

• can
• could

• do these
• perform the
• perform these
• do the

• signs that
• miracles
• signs

• you
• You
• you are

• do, unless
• do unless
• doing unless
• are doing if

• God

• is with
• were with

• him.’
• him.”
• Him.”
• you.”

John 3:3

• Jesus

• answered and said to
• answered

• him,
• him, “
• him, ‘

• Truly,
• Verily,

• truly
• truly,
• verily,

• I

• tell
• say to
• assure

• you, unless one is

• born
• born from

• again,
• again
• above,
• anew,

• he
• you
• they

• cannot

• see the
• able to see the
• see

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of
• God’s

• God.
• God.”
• God;’
• God.’
• Kingdom.”
• kingdom!”
• kingdom.”

John 3:4

• Nicodemus said to

• him, “How
• Him, “How

• can a
• can

• man
• anyone

• be born when

• he
• they

• is
• are

• old?
• old? He

• Can
• can

• he
• not

• enter a second time into his mother’s

• womb, and
• womb and

• be

• born?
• born?”
• born?’
• born!”

John 3:5

• Jesus

• answered, “
• answered,
• answered, ‘

• Truly, truly
• Truly, truly,
• Verily, verily,
• Very truly
• Very truly,

• I

• tell
• say to
• assure

• you, no one can enter the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• God without being

• born of
• born from
• born through

• water and the
• water and

• Spirit.
• Spirit;
• spirit.

John 3:6

• That which is
• What is
• Whatever is

• born of the
• born from

• flesh is

• flesh and what
• flesh, and what
• flesh; and that which
• flesh, and that which
• flesh; whatever
• flesh. Whatever
• flesh, and whatever

• is born of the Spirit is

• spirit.
• spiritual.

John 3:7

• Do
• “Do
• You should

• not
• n’t

• be surprised when
• be amazed that
• be surprised that
• be astonished that
• marvel that

• I said to you, ‘You

• must
• must all

• be

• born again.
• born again.”
• born again.’
• born from above.’
• born from above.
• born anew.’

John 3:8

• “The wind
• The wind

• blows where
• blows wherever

• it

• wishes and
• wishes, and
• wants to and
• wants to, and
• wants to.
• wills, and
• chooses, and
• pleases.
• wishes;
• wishes.

• you
• You

• hear its

• sound of
• sound, but
• sound
• sound.

• you
• You
• it, but you
• it, but

• do
• can

• not
• n’t

• know where
• tell where
• know where the

• it
• wind

• comes from or where
• is coming from or where

• it is going. So it is with everyone

• born of the
• born from the

• Spirit.
• spirit.”
• Spirit.”
• Spirit.’

John 3:9

• Nicodemus

• said to him, “How
• said to Him, “How
• answered and said to Him, “How
• answered and said to him, “How
• replied, “How

• can these things

• be?
• be.
• be?”
• possible?”
• possible?’

John 3:10

• Jesus:
• “Jesus
• Jesus

• answered and said to
• answered, “
• answered
• said, “
• replied, “
• replied, ‘

• You
• him, “

• Are
• are an
• are a

• you the
• you a
• important

• teacher of

• Israel and
• Israel, and

• yet you do

• not
• n’t

• understand this!
• understand this?
• know this?

John 3:11

• Truly,
• ‘Verily,
• Verily,
• Most

• truly
• truly,
• verily,

• I

• tell
• say to
• assure

• you,
• you:
• you that

• we
• We

• speak of what
• speak about what
• speak that which

• we

• know, and
• know and

• testify to what
• testify about what

• we
• We

• have
• ’ve

• seen. But
• seen; but
• seen, but
• seen; and
• seen, and
• seen. Yet
• seen; yet

• you
• you people

• do
• wo

• not
• n’t

• accept
• receive

• our
• Our

• testimony!
• testimony.
• witness.
• evidence.
• message.

John 3:12

• If I
• I

• have

• told
• spoken to

• you
• you about

• earthly

• things and
• things, and

• you do

• not
• n’t

• believe, how

• will
• can

• you

• believe if
• believe

• I
• me when I
• me if I

• tell

• you
• you about

• heavenly

• things?
• things!

John 3:13

• [Translation pending]

John 3:14

• as Moses
• As Moses
• “As Moses
• “Moses
• Moses
• “Just as Moses
• Just as Moses
• And just as Moses
• And as Moses
• And, as Moses

• lifted up the

• snake. in the
• snake in the
• serpent in the

• wilderness,
• desert,

• so
• even so

• must the Son of

• Man must
• Man
• man

• be

• lifted up;
• lifted up
• lifted up.
• lifted up,

John 3:15

• so that everyone who believes in
• Then everyone who believes in
• that whoever believes in

• Him
• him

• may
• will
• can
• should not

• have
• perish but have
• perish, but have

• eternal

• life.
• life.”

John 3:16

• for God
• For God
• “For God

• so loved the

• world, that
• world that
• world:

• He
• he

• gave

• his
• His
• his one and

• only
• only begotten

• Son, that whoever
• Son so that whoever

• believes in

• Him
• him

• will
• may
• should
• shall

• not

• perish, but
• perish but
• be lost, but
• be lost but
• die but

• have
• will have
• may have

• eternal
• everlasting

• life.

John 3:17

• For God
• “God
• God

• did

• not
• n’t

• send
• send the

• His Son into the
• his Son into the
• son into the
• Son into the

• world to

• condemn the
• judge the

• world, but that the
• world; but that the

• world

• might
• should

• be saved through

• Him.
• him.
• him;

John 3:18

• “He who
• He who
• “Anyone who
• Anyone who
• No one who
• The one who

• believes in

• Him
• him

• is
• are

• not

• condemned; but
• condemned. But
• condemned, but
• judged.
• judged;
• judged. But

• he who
• He who
• anyone who
• everyone who

• does

• not
• n’t

• believe

• is
• has been

• condemned
• judged

• already, because
• already because

• he
• they

• has
• have
• does
• do

• not believed in the

• name of the
• name of the one and
• name of the One and

• Only
• only
• only begotten

• Son of God.

John 3:19

• And this is the
• “This is the
• This is the

• judgment, that the
• judgment: that the
• judgment: The
• judgment: the

• Light
• light

• has come into the
• came into the

• world, and
• world and
• world, but

• people
• men

• preferred

• darkness to the
• darkness to

• light because
• light, because
• light, for
• light; for

• their

• deeds
• actions
• works

• were
• are

• evil.
• evil things.

John 3:20

• [Translation pending]

John 3:21

• [Translation pending]

John 3:22

• After this Jesus and
• After this, Jesus and
• After these things Jesus and
• Later, Jesus and

• his
• His

• disciples
• followers

• went into the
• came into the
• went
• came into

• Judean
• land of
• country of
• area of

• Judea, where
• Judea; there
• Judea. There
• Judea.
• countryside, where
• countryside, and
• Judea, and there
• territory, and

• He
• he
• Jesus
• there he

• spent some time with
• stayed with
• stayed there with
• spent time with
• remained with

• them and
• them, and
• them there and
• them for a
• his followers and

• baptized.
• baptized people.
• was baptizing.
• baptizing.

John 3:23

• John,
• John
• Now John

• also,
• also
• too,
• too

• was

• baptizing at
• baptizing in

• Aenon, near
• Aenon near

• Salim, because there
• Salim. There
• Salim, where there

• was
• was an
• were

• plenty of
• much
• plentiful
• abundance of
• many

• water there; and
• water there. And
• water there: and
• water there, and
• water there and
• there, and
• water.
• water, and
• water there.

• People
• people
• they
• They

• were coming and
• came to
• came, and
• came and
• kept coming to
• were coming to

• being
• be
• were
• were being
• him and were

• baptized.
• baptized—
• baptized,
• baptized

John 3:24

• (This was before
• This was before

• John was
• John had been

• put in
• put into

• prison.
• prison).
• prison.)

John 3:25

• Now a

• dispute
• discussion

• arose between some of
• arose between

• John’s

• disciples and a
• disciples and a certain
• disciples with a

• Jew about
• Jew

• purification;
• purification,
• purification.
• religious washing.

John 3:26

• so they
• So they
• They
• And they

• came to
• went to

• John, and
• John and

• said to
• said, “

• him, “
• Teacher,

• Rabbi, the
• Rabbi,
• remember the
• Rabbi, that

• man who
• he who
• He who
• one who

• was with

• you beyond the
• you across the
• you on the other
• you on the

• Jordan, to whom
• other side of the Jordan River, the one

• you

• testified,
• testified—

• here he

• is
• is,

• baptizing and all
• baptizing, and all

• are

• going to
• coming to
• flocking to

• Him.
• him.’
• Him!”
• him.”
• him!”
• Him.”

John 3:27

• John

• answered, “A
• answered, ‘A
• replied: No
• replied, “No
• replied: ‘No
• answered and said, A
• answered and said, “A
• answered, “No
• ’s answer was: ’A
• ’s answer was—“A
• replied, “A

• man
• one
• person

• can
• cannot

• receive
• have
• get

• anything unless
• nothing unless
• nothing, unless
• only what

• God
• it has

• been
• gives

• given
• given to
• him from

• him from heaven!
• him from heaven.
• heaven.
• them from heaven.

John 3:28

• ‘You
• You

• yourselves heard me say, ‘I

• am
• ’m

• not the

• Christ, but
• Messiah.
• Messiah, but that
• Christ.

• I am only the one God sent to prepare the way for

• him.
• him.”
• him.’

John 3:29

• He who
• The one who

• has the bride is the

• bridegroom. But the
• bridegroom; but the
• bridegroom; the
• bridegroom. The

• friend of the
• friend who helps the

• bridegroom, who

• stands and
• stands by and

• hears
• listens for
• listens to

• him,

• rejoices
• is

• greatly because of the
• greatly at the

• bridegroom
• groom

• ’s

• voice;
• voice.

• So this
• therefore this
• Therefore this

• joy of mine

• is now
• is
• has been

• complete.
• made full.
• fulfilled.
• full.

John 3:30

• He

• must
• must become
• must become more

• increase, but
• important, while
• important while
• greater,
• greater;
• more important.

• I

• must
• become

• decrease.”
• decrease.
• become less important.
• less important.”
• less important.
• grow less.
• grow less.’

John 3:31

• “He Who
• “He who
• He who
• ‘The one who
• The one who
• “The one who

• comes from above

• is above all,
• is above all;
• is above all.
• is above all. The
• is above all; the

• one who
• he who
• He who

• is from the
• is of the
• comes from the

• earth

• belongs to the
• is
• is from the

• earth, and
• earth and
• earthly and

• speaks of the
• speaks as one from the
• speaks about

• earth.
• earth; the
• earth. The

• one who
• He Who
• He who

• comes from heaven

• is above all.
• is superior to all.
• is over all.

John 3:32

• He

• testifies to what
• tells what
• bears witness to what
• testifies about what

• He
• he

• has seen and

• heard, but no
• heard. But no
• heard, of that He testifies; and no
• heard, of that he testifies; and no

• one

• accepts
• receives
• accepts what

• his
• His
• he

• testimony;
• testimony.
• says.
• witness.

John 3:33

• The one who has accepted
• Whoever accepts what
• He who has received his
• He who has received His
• Whoever has accepted

• his
• His
• it
• he
• testimony

• testimony has
• has
• has set his
• says has
• testimony

• seal to this, that
• certified that
• affirmed that

• God is

• true;
• true,
• true.
• truthful.
• truthful.’

John 3:34

• For he whom God
• For He whom God
• For the one whom God

• has sent

• speaks the
• utters the

• words of

• God; for
• God, for

• God
• He
• he

• gives the
• does not give the

• Spirit without
• spirit
• Spirit
• Spirit by

• measure.
• limit.
• fully.

John 3:35

• the Father
• The Father
• The father
• “The Father

• loves the

• son and
• Son, and
• Son and

• has given all
• has put
• has given
• has entrusted
• has placed
• has
• has placed all

• things into
• everything in
• everything into
• him

• his hands.
• His hands.
• his hand.
• His hand.
• power over everything.
• his power.

John 3:36

• He who
• The one who
• Anyone who

• believes in the Son has eternal

• life, but the
• life; but the
• life.
• life, but

• one who
• anyone who
• Anyone who

• disobeys the
• rejects the
• refuses to believe in the

• Son will not

• see
• have

• life;
• life.
• life:
• life, but

• God’s

• wrath
• anger

• remains on
• rests upon

• him.
• him.’
• him.”
• them.
• them.”