8. The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9. Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can this happen?”
10. Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this?
11. Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
12. If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
13. No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
14. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15. so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
19. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil.
20. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.
21. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
22. After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea, where he spent some time with them baptizing.
23. John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there, and people came to be baptized,
24. for John had not yet been imprisoned.