John 3:16-24

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶ “For God so ^(A)loved the world, that He ^(B)gave His ^(C)only Son, so that everyone who ^(D)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God ^(E)did not send the Son into the world ^(F)to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ^18 (G)The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of ^(H)the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that ^(I)the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for ^(J)their deeds were evil. ^20 (K)For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. ²¹ But the one who ^(L)practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed ^[a]as having been performed in God.”

John the Baptist’s Last Testimony

²² After these things Jesus and His ^(M)disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He was spending time with them and ^(N)baptizing. ²³ Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there; and people were coming and being baptized— ²⁴ for ^(O)John had not yet been thrown into prison.