The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

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and the Lord answered, “Make a snake out of bronze and place it on top of a pole. Anyone who gets bitten can look at the snake and be saved from death.”

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So Moses made a bronze snake(A) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.(B)

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(A) Moses obeyed the Lord. And all of those who looked at the bronze snake lived, even though they had been bitten by the poisonous snakes.

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14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,(A) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:14 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.

14 (A) And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.[a]

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  1. 3.14 just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert: When the Lord punished the people of Israel by sending snakes to bite them, he told Moses to hold a metal snake up on a pole. Everyone who looked at the snake was cured of the snake bites (see Numbers 21.4-9).

15 that everyone who believes(A) may have eternal life in him.”[a](B)

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  1. John 3:15 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.

15 Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life.

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