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Nicodemus, a Ruler of The Jews, Comes To Jesus, And Is Told He Must Be Born Again

3 Now there was a man from the Pharisees— the name for him was Nicodemus— a ruler of the Jews. ² This one came to Him by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher. For no one is able to be doing these signs which You are doing unless God is with him”. ³ Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you— unless one is born again^[a], he is not able to see the kingdom of God”. ⁴ Nicodemus says to Him, “How is a person able to be born while being an old-man? He is not able to enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born, is he?” ⁵ Jesus responded, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water^[b] and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ The thing having been born of the flesh is flesh, and the thing having been born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You^[c] all must be born again’— ⁸ the wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know from where it comes, and where it is going. So^[d] is everyone having been born of the Spirit”. ⁹ Nicodemus responded and said to Him, “How are these^[e] things able to happen?” ¹⁰ Jesus responded and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things? ¹¹ Truly, truly, I say to you that we are speaking what we know, and we are testifying what we have seen, and you^[f] people are not receiving our testimony. ¹² If I told you people earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³ And no one has gone up into heaven except the One having come down from heaven— the Son of Man. ¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted-up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up ¹⁵ in order that everyone putting-faith in Him may have^[g] eternal life.

God Sent His Son Into The World That All Believing In Him May Have Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For^[h] God so^[i] loved the world that He gave His only-born Son, in order that everyone believing in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send-forth the Son into the world in order that He might judge^[j] the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing in Him is not judged. But the one not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-born Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment^[k]: that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing bad things hates the Light, and does not come to the Light in order that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But the one doing the truth comes to the Light in order that his works may become-visible— that^[l] they have been worked in^[m] God”.

Jesus Goes To Judea. John The Baptist Declares Himself The Friend of The Bridegroom

²² After these things Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean land, and there He was spending-time with them and baptizing. ²³ Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there were many waters^[n] there. And they were coming and being baptized. ²⁴ For John had not yet been thrown into prison. ²⁵ Then a debate^[o] arose from the disciples of John with a Jew about purification. ²⁶ And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, concerning Whom you have testified, look— this One is baptizing, and all are going to Him!” ²⁷ John responded and said “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves are testifying concerning me that I said that ‘I am not the Christ’, but that ‘I am one having been sent-forth ahead of that One’. ²⁹ The one having the bride is the bridegroom. And the friend of the bridegroom, the one standing there and hearing him, rejoices with joy^[p] because of the voice of the bridegroom. So this^[q], my joy, has been made-full. ³⁰ It-is-necessary for that One to grow, and for me to diminish.

Jesus Has Come From Heaven With The Words of God. He Is Above All

³¹ “The^[r] One coming from-above is above^[s] all. The one being from the earth is from the earth and is speaking from the earth. The One coming from heaven is above all. ³² What He has seen and did hear— this He is testifying. And no one is receiving His testimony. ³³ The one having received His testimony certified^[t] that God is truthful, ³⁴ for He Whom God sent forth is speaking the words of God. For He does not give Him the Spirit from a measure^[u]. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things in His hand. ³⁶ The one believing in the Son has eternal life. But the one disobeying^[v] the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him”.

Jesus Goes To Galilee

4 So when Jesus knew^[w] that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ² (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples), ³ He left Judea and went again^[x] toward Galilee. ⁴ And He had-to go through Samaria.

On The Way, Jesus Stops At a Well In Samaria

⁵ So He comes into a city of Samaria being called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now a spring of Jacob was there. So Jesus, having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus^[y] at the spring. The hour was about the sixth^[z].

He Talks With a Woman At The Well, And Tells Her He Is The Awaited Messiah

⁷ A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me water to drink”. ⁸ For His disciples had gone into the city in order that they might buy food. ⁹ So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How is it You, being a Jew, are asking something to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not use-things-together-with^[aa] Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus responded and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and Who the One saying to you ‘Give Me water to drink’ is— you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water”. ¹¹ The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep. From where then do You have the living water? ¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, and his sons, and his animals?” ¹³ Jesus responded and said to her, “Everyone drinking from this water will thirst again. ¹⁴ But whoever should drink from the water which I will give him— he will never thirst, ever. On the contrary, the water which I will give him will become a spring of water in him, bubbling-up to eternal life”. ¹⁵ The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water in order that I may not be thirsting, nor coming here to draw it”. ¹⁶ He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here”. ¹⁷ The woman responded and said to Him, “I do not have a husband”. Jesus says to her, “You said rightly that ‘I do not have a husband’. ¹⁸ For you had five husbands. And now he whom you have is not your husband. You have spoken this as a true thing”. ¹⁹ The woman says to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this^[ab] mountain, and you^[ac] Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem”. ²¹ Jesus says to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when you^[ad] Samaritans will give-worship to the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We Jews worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will give-worship to the Father in spirit and truth. For indeed the Father is seeking such ones to be the ones worshiping Him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth”. ²⁵ The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming— the One being called Christ. When that One comes, He will declare all things to us”. ²⁶ Jesus says to her, “I, the One speaking to you, am He”.

The Disciples Marvel That He Was Speaking With a Woman

²⁷ And at this point His disciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city. And she says to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man Who told me everything that I did. This One is not the Christ, is He?” ³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

Jesus Explains: I Came To Do God’s Will. The Harvest Is Ripe

³¹ In the meantime the disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”. ³² But the One said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about”. ³³ So the disciples were saying to one another, “Someone did not bring Him something to eat, did he?” ³⁴ Jesus says to them, “My food is that I may do the will of the One having sent Me, and accomplish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say that ‘There are still^[ae] four months, and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you— lift-up your eyes and look-at the fields, that^[af] they are white for harvest^[ag]. Already ³⁶ the one reaping is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal, so that the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this case the saying is true, that ‘One is the one sowing and another^[ah] is the one reaping. ³⁸ I sent you out to be reaping what you have not^[ai] labored-for. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor”.

Many Samaritans Believe His Message After Hearing His Words

³⁹ And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman testifying that “He told me everything which I did”. ⁴⁰ Therefore when the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them. And He stayed there for two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of His word. ⁴² And they were saying to the woman that “We are no longer believing because of your speaking. For we ourselves have heard, and we know that this One is truly the Savior of the world”. ⁴³ And after the two days, He went forth from there to Galilee. ⁴⁴ For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own homeland.

Arriving In Galilee, a Royal Jew Believes After Jesus Heals His Son

⁴⁵ So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all that He did in Jerusalem at the Feast. For they also went to the Feast. ⁴⁶ So He came again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain royal one whose son was sick in Capernaum. ⁴⁷ This one, having heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, went to Him, and was asking that He come down and heal his son. For he was about to die. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you^[aj] people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe”. ⁴⁹ The royal one says to Him, “Master, come down before my child dies”. ⁵⁰ Jesus says to him, “Go, your son lives”. The man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and was going. ⁵¹ Now while he was already going down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy lives. ⁵² So he inquired from them the hour at which he got better. So they said to him that “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh^[ak] hour”. ⁵³ Then the father knew that it was at that hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”. And he believed^[al], he and his whole household. ⁵⁴ Now this again was a second^[am] sign Jesus did, having come from Judea to Galilee.