John 3-4 (21st Century King James Version)

John 3

 ¹There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

   
 ²The same came to Jesus by night and said unto Him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, unless God be with him."

   
 ³Jesus answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily I say unto thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

   
 ⁴Nicodemus said unto 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?"

   
 ⁵Jesus answered, "Verily, verily I say unto thee, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot 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 unto thee, `Ye must be born again.'

   
 ⁸The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."

   
 ⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, "How can these things be?"

   
 ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, "Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

   
 ¹¹Verily, verily I say unto thee, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

   
 ¹²If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?

   
 ¹³And no man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man who is in Heaven.

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

   
 ¹⁵that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

   
 ¹⁶"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

   
 ¹⁷For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

   
 ¹⁸"He that believeth in Him is not condemned; but He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

   
 ¹⁹And this is the condemnation: that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

   
 ²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

   
 ²¹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

   
 ²²After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He tarried with them, and baptized.

   
 ²³And John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized,

   
 ²⁴for John had not yet been cast into prison.

   
 ²⁵Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

   
 ²⁶And they came unto John and said unto him, "Rabbi, He that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness -- behold, the same baptizeth and all men come to Him."

   
 ²⁷John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from Heaven.

   
 ²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, `I am not the Christ,' but that `I am sent before Him.'

   
 ²⁹He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy, therefore, is fulfilled.

   
 ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

   
 ³¹"He that cometh from above is above all; he that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth. He that cometh from Heaven is above all.

   
 ³²And what He hath seen and heard, to that He testifieth, and no man receiveth His testimony.

   
 ³³He that hath received His testimony hath set his seal to this: that God is true.

   
 ³⁴For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.

   
 ³⁵The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand.

   
 ³⁶He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."

   

John 4

 ¹When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John

   
 ²(though Jesus Himself baptized not, but His disciples),

   
 ³He left Judea and departed again into Galilee,

   
 ⁴and He needed to go through Samaria.

   
 ⁵Then came He to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

   
 ⁶Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus by the well; and it was about the sixth hour.

   
 ⁷There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said unto her, "Give Me to drink."

   
 ⁸(For His disciples had gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

   
 ⁹Then said the woman of Samaria unto Him, "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest a drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria?" For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

   
 ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, `Give Me to drink,' thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water."

   
 ¹¹The woman said unto Him, "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water?

   
 ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?"

   
 ¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,

   
 ¹⁴but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

   
 ¹⁵The woman said unto Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw."

   
 ¹⁶Jesus said unto her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither."

   
 ¹⁷The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said unto her, "Thou hast well said, `I have no husband';

   
 ¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In that thou saidst truly."

   
 ¹⁹The woman said unto Him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

   
 ²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

   
 ²¹Jesus said unto her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither on this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

   
 ²²Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

   
 ²³But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.

   
 ²⁴God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

   
 ²⁵The woman said unto Him, "I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things."

   
 ²⁶Jesus said unto her, "I that speak unto thee am He."

   
 ²⁷And upon this came His disciples and marveled that He talked with the woman; yet no man said, "What seekest Thou?" or, "Why talkest Thou with her?"

   
 ²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city and said to the men,

   
 ²⁹"Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ?"

   
 ³⁰Then they went out of the city and came unto Him.

   
 ³¹Meanwhile His disciples entreated Him, saying, "Master, eat."

   
 ³²But He said unto them, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of."

   
 ³³Therefore the disciples said one to another, "Hath any man brought Him aught to eat?"

   
 ³⁴Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.

   
 ³⁵Say not ye, `There are yet four months and then cometh the harvest'? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.

   
 ³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

   
 ³⁷And herein is that saying true, `One soweth and another reapeth.'

   
 ³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor; other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors."

   
 ³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the saying of the woman who testified, "He told me all that ever I did."

   
 ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans had come unto Him, they besought Him that He would tarry with them; and He abode there two days.

   
 ⁴¹And many more believed because of His own word,

   
 ⁴²and said unto the woman, "Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard Him ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

   
 ⁴³Now after two days He departed thence and went into Galilee.

   
 ⁴⁴For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

   
 ⁴⁵Then when He had come into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.

   
 ⁴⁶So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

   
 ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto Him and besought Him that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

   
 ⁴⁸Then Jesus said unto him, "Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe."

   
 ⁴⁹The nobleman said unto Him, "Sir, come down ere my child die!"

   
 ⁵⁰Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy son liveth." And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

   
 ⁵¹And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, "Thy son liveth!"

   
 ⁵²Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to be healed. And they said unto him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

   
 ⁵³So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus had said unto him, "Thy son liveth." And he himself believed, and his whole house.

   
 ⁵⁴This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.