John 3

1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.Cross-references: Luke 23:13 · John 3:10 · John 7:47 · John 19:39

2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”Cross-references: Judg 6:27 · Isa 51:7 · Matt 22:16 · Mark 12:14 · John 1:38 · John 3:26 · +15 more

3Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Jer 5:21 · Matt 5:18 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 16:17 · John 1:5 · +19 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

4Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”Cross-references: John 3:3 · John 4:11 · John 6:53 · John 6:60 · 1Cor 1:18 · 1Cor 2:14

5Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.Cross-references: Isa 44:3 · Ezek 36:25 · Matt 3:11 · Matt 5:20 · Matt 18:3 · Matt 28:19 · +23 more

6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Cross-references: Gen 5:3 · Gen 6:5 · Gen 6:12 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · +17 more

7Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’Cross-references: Job 15:14 · Matt 13:33 · John 3:3 · John 3:12 · John 5:28 · John 6:61 · +9 more

8The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”Cross-references: Job 37:10 · Job 37:16 · Job 37:21 · Ps 107:25 · Ps 107:29 · Eccl 11:4 · +11 more

9Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”Cross-references: Prov 4:18 · Isa 42:16 · Mark 8:24 · Luke 1:34 · John 3:4 · John 6:52 · +1 more

10Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?Cross-references: Deut 10:16 · Deut 30:6 · 1Chr 29:19 · Ps 51:6 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 73:1 · +19 more

11Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.Cross-references: Isa 50:2 · Isa 53:1 · Isa 55:4 · Isa 65:2 · Matt 11:27 · Matt 23:37 · +23 more

12If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?Cross-references: John 1:1 · John 3:3 · John 3:5 · John 3:8 · John 3:13 · John 3:31 · +6 more

13No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.Cross-references: Deut 30:12 · Prov 30:4 · Matt 28:20 · Mark 16:19 · John 1:18 · John 3:31 · +16 more

14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,Cross-references: Num 21:7 · 2Ki 18:4 · Ps 22:16 · Matt 26:54 · Luke 18:31 · Luke 24:20 · +6 more

15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.Cross-references: Isa 45:22 · Matt 18:10 · Mark 16:16 · Luke 19:10 · John 1:12 · John 3:16 · +27 more

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Matt 9:13 · Mark 12:6 · Luke 2:14 · John 1:14 · John 1:18 · +17 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.Cross-references: Isa 45:21 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 53:10 · Zech 9:9 · Matt 1:23 · Matt 18:10 · +23 more

18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.Cross-references: Mark 16:16 · John 1:18 · John 3:36 · John 5:24 · John 6:40 · John 6:47 · +9 more

19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.Cross-references: Isa 30:9 · Matt 11:20 · Luke 10:11 · Luke 12:47 · Luke 16:14 · John 1:4 · +18 more

20For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:8 · Job 24:13 · Ps 50:17 · Prov 1:29 · Prov 4:18 · Prov 5:12 · +6 more

21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”Cross-references: Ps 1:1 · Ps 119:80 · Ps 119:105 · Ps 139:23 · Isa 8:20 · Isa 26:12 · +23 more

22After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.Cross-references: John 2:13 · John 3:26 · John 4:1 · John 7:3

23John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came and were baptized;Cross-references: Gen 33:18 · 1Sam 9:4 · Jer 51:13 · Ezek 19:10 · Ezek 43:2 · Matt 3:5 · +5 more

24for John was not yet thrown into prison.Cross-references: Matt 4:12 · Matt 14:3 · Mark 6:17 · Luke 3:19 · Luke 9:7

25Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.Cross-references: Matt 3:11 · Mark 7:2 · Mark 7:8 · John 2:6 · Heb 6:2 · Heb 9:10 · +3 more

26They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”Cross-references: Num 11:26 · Ps 65:2 · Eccl 4:4 · Isa 45:23 · Matt 23:7 · John 1:7 · +12 more

27John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.Cross-references: Num 16:9 · Num 17:5 · 1Chr 28:4 · Jer 1:5 · Jer 17:16 · Amos 7:15 · +19 more

28You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’Cross-references: Mal 3:1 · Mal 4:4 · Matt 3:3 · Matt 3:11 · Mark 1:2 · Luke 1:16 · +6 more

29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full.Cross-references: Judg 14:10 · Ps 45:9 · Song 3:11 · Song 4:8 · Song 5:1 · Isa 54:5 · +19 more

30He must increase, but I must decrease.Cross-references: Ps 72:17 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 53:2 · Isa 53:12 · Dan 2:34 · Dan 2:44 · +7 more

31“He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.Cross-references: Matt 28:18 · John 1:15 · John 1:27 · John 1:30 · John 3:12 · John 5:21 · +15 more

32What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.Cross-references: Isa 50:2 · Isa 53:1 · John 1:11 · John 3:11 · John 3:26 · John 3:33 · +5 more

33He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.Cross-references: John 6:27 · Rom 3:3 · Rom 4:18 · 2Cor 1:18 · 2Cor 1:22 · Eph 1:13 · +4 more

34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.Cross-references: Num 11:25 · 2Ki 2:9 · Ps 45:7 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 59:21 · Isa 62:1 · +21 more

35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.Cross-references: Gen 41:44 · Gen 41:55 · Ps 2:8 · Prov 8:30 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 42:1 · +18 more

36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”Cross-references: Num 32:11 · Job 33:28 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 36:9 · Ps 49:19 · Ps 106:4 · +25 more