18The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign dost thou show to us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? 21But he said it of the temple of his body. 22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.
23And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought. 24But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, 25and had no need that any one should testify of man; for he himself knew what was in man.
III. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.
3Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born again[3], he can not see the kingdom of God. 4Nicodemus says to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be born again.
8The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it comes, and whither it goes. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? 10Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11Verily, verily, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. 12If I told you the earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly things? 13And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; 15that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God. 19And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he remained with them, and immersed. 23And John also was immersing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and they came, and were immersed. 24For John was not yet cast into prison.
25There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification. 26And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.
27John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 28Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. 29He that 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. This my joy therefore is made full. 30He must increase, but I must decrease. 31He that comes from above is above all; he that is from the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all. 32And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and his testimony no one receives. 33He that received his testimony has set his seal, That God is true. 34For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not[34] the Spirit by measure. 35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.