Born from Above

9Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can these things happen?”

10Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things?”

11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak what we know and testify to what we have seen, and you do not receive our testimony.

12If I told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

13And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

16For God loved the world in this way: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17For God did not send the Son into the world so that he might judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.

18The 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 the one and only Son of God.

19And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their works were evil.

20For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

21But the one who does the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be revealed, because they have been done in God.