18. Those who believe in him won’t be condemned. But those who don’t believe are already condemned because they don’t believe in God’s only Son.
19. This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.
20. People who do what is wrong hate the light and don’t come to the light. They don’t want their actions to be exposed.
21. But people who do what is true come to the light so that the things they do for God may be clearly seen.
22. Later, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them and baptized people.
23. John was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim. Water was plentiful there. (People came to John to be baptized,
24. since John had not yet been put in prison.)