Friday, October 7, 2016
John 3
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)- Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)
- John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)
Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
John3 NLT
1 There was a man named Nicodemus, a
Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee.
2 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.”
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth,
unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus.
“How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can
enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
6Humans can reproduce only human life, but the
Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.
7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You
must be born again.’
8The 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.”
9 “How are these things possible?”
Nicodemus asked.
10Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish
teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?
11 I assure you, we tell you what we know
and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony.
12 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?
13 No one has ever gone to heaven and
returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake
on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in him
will have eternal life.
16 “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.
17 God sent his Son into the world not to
judge the world, but to save the world through him.
18 “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.
19 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.
20 All 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. ”
22 Then Jesus and his disciples left
Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them
there, baptizing people.
23 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.
24 (This was before John was thrown into
prison.)
25 A debate broke out between John’s
disciples and a certain Jew over ceremonial cleansing.
26 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.”
27 John replied, “No one can receive
anything unless God gives it from heaven.
28 You yourselves know how plainly I told
you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’
29 It is the bridegroom who marries the
bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows.
Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.
30 He must become greater and greater, and
I must become less and less.
31 “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.
32 He testifies about what he has seen and
heard, but how few believe what he tells them!
33 Anyone who accepts his testimony can
affirm that God is true.
34 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s
words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.
35 The Father loves his Son and has put
everything into his hands.
36 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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