CHAPTER 3
Born by the Spirit
1There was a Pharisee (a Jewish religious leader), named Nicodemus.2He came to Jesus at night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God. For no one could perform the signs that you do, unless he had God's approval.3Jesus answered him, In all truth, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.4Nicodemus said to him, An old man... being born? Who can re-enter his mother’s womb, to be born a second time? 5Jesus answered, In all truth, I say to you, unless you are born of water and the Spirit, you cannot take part in the kingdom of God! 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7Don't get caught up on the image. 8The wind blow where it wants, you hear the sound it makes, but you don't know where it has been, or where it going. So it is with every one that is born of the Spirit. 9Nicodemus asked, What are you talking about?10Jesus answered him, You're the teacher of Israel, and you don't understand these things?11 In all truth, I say to you, We speak of what we know, and testify to what we have seen. Yet, you do not accept our testimoney.12 If I talk to you about earthly things and you won't follow, how will you follow if I talk about heavenly things? 13 No one has gone to heaven, except the Son of man, who has come from heaven. 14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up; 15so that anyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son and heir, to save those who
trust in him from death, and give them eternal life.17
God sent his Son into the world not as its judge, but as its saviour.
18The one who places his trust in him is not judged, but the one that doesn't
has been judged already, because he doesn't accept the
name of God's only legitimate Son.19
And this is the judgement:
The light has come into the world,
but men loved the darkness more than the light; for their works were evil.20
For anyone that does evil hates the light, and refuses to come the light,
in case their works are exposed. 21
But anyone that acts truthfully comes to the light, and their works,
that originate in God, are made apparent. Jesus and John the Baptist
22
After these things Jesus went to the land of Judea,
and there he stayed with his disciples, and baptised.23John was also
baptising in Aenon near to Salim, because there was alot of water there, and
the people came, and were baptised.24For John had not yet been arrested.
25A dispute arose between John’s disciples, and
a Jew about purification.26So they came to John, and said to him,
Rabbi, the one that was with you on the other side the Jordan, the one you bore witness about,
He is baptising, and everyone is going to him.27John
replied, A man has nothing, except what has been given to
him from heaven.28You yourselves can bear witness, that I said, I am not
the Christ, but, that I am his forerunner.
29The bride is for the
bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom rejoices when he hears the bridegroom’s voice.
That is my joy, and now it is complete.30He must increase as I must decrease.
31The one that comes from above is above all. The earthly one belongs to the earth, and
that is what he knows, and speaks about. The one that comes from heaven is above all.
32He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts
his testimony.33The one that does accept his witness knows
that God is true.34For the one that God sends speaks the words of
God. For God gives the Spirit without measure.35The Father loves the Son,
and has given all things to him.36The one that believes in the Son has
eternal life; but the one that disobeys the Son shall not see life. For the wrath
of God rests on him.
CHAPTER 4
The Samaritan Woman
1When the Jesus heard that the Pharisees learned that he
was making and baptising more disciples than John2(although it wasn't Jesus
that was baptising, but his disciples),3he left Judea, and returned to Galilee.
4On the way, he passed through Samaria.5He came to a Samaritan city
called Sychar, near to the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his
son Joseph.6Jesus was tired from travelling so sat down beside Jacob’s well.
It was about the sixth hour (Midday).
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
Give me a drink.8
For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.
9She said to him, Why does a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?
(For Jews did not associate with Samaritans.)10Jesus answered her,
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is asking you for a
drink; you would be asking him, and he would give you living water.
11The woman said to him, Sir, you don't have any means to get water,
and the well is deep. How do you propose to get this living water?12Are
you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well; from which he drank;
Him, his sons, and his cattle? 13Jesus answered her,
Every one that drinks this water shall be thirsty again.14
However, anyone who drinks the water I can give shall never be thirsty again.
The water I give will become a well springing up to
eternal life.15The woman replied, Sir, give me this water, so I
will never get thirsty, and have to come all this way to draw water again.16
Jesus said to her,
Go, call your husband, and come back.17The woman answered,
I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you answer well when you say: I have
no husband.18
For you have had five husbands, and the one your with now
isn't your husband. Indeed. this is the truth.19
The woman replied, Sir, I can tell you are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and you say,
that everyone should worship in Jerusalem.
21Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming,
when shall you worship the Father neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.22
You worship what you don't know. We worship what we do
know; for salvation is from the Jews.23
But the time is at hand, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth. For this is the kind of worship the Father desires.24
God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
25The woman said to him, I know that when Messiah (in Greek the Christ)
comes, he will make reveal everything.
26Jesus said to her, The one speaking to you is he.
27At this his disciples returned. Although they were surprised to find him talking to a
woman.
No one said, What are you talking about? or, Why
are you talking with her?28So the woman left her waterpot, and went back
into the city. She said to the people,29Come, and see a man, who told me
everything that ever I did. Can he be the Christ?30So they left the city,
to go to Jesus.31In the meantime the disciples urged him, saying,
Rabbi, eat.32But he answered, I have food that you
know nothing about.33The disciples wondered among themselves,
where he could have gotten food, and from who?
34Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me,
and to accomplish his work.35
Do you not say, Four months more, then the harvest?
Well, I say to you, Lift up your eyes! Look at the fields! They they are white, ready to
harvest!36
The reaper receives his wages, and gather thefruit of eternal life.
So that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.37For
here is a true saying, One sows, and another reaps.38
I sent you to reap what you have not sowed. Others have done the hard work. You are
reaping their labour.39And so many of the Samaritans
believed in him because of the testimony of the woman, when she said: He told
me everythings I ever did.40So when they met him,
they pleaded with him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
41Many more believed because of his word.42Then they said to the
woman, Now we believe, not just because of what you said. For we have heard
for ourselves, and now we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
Jesus, the prophet without honour CHAPTER 5
The crippled man at Bethesda 1After this Jesus went up to
Jerusalem, because of a Jewish festival.2Now in Jerusalem, beside the sheep gate,
there is a pool with five porches, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
3Around this pool were the sick, the blind, those with handicaps and whithered limbs,
waiting.
4The reason why: an angel of the Lord came down at certain times, and stirred the water.
When this happened the first that dipped in the pool was completely healed of their infirmity,
and made whole.
5Now there was a man there who had been handicapped for thirty eight years.
6When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew he had been sick for a long time,
so he asked, Would you like to get well?
7The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool, when the water is
stirred, while I am trying, another gets there ahead of me.
8Jesus said to him, Get up, take your mat, and walk.
9Immediately the man was healed. He took up his bed and
walked. Now it was on the sabbath when all this happened.10So the Jews said to the man
that was cured, It's not lawful for you to carry your mat on the Sabbbath.
11The man replied, I'm just doing what the man, who healed me, told me to do.
12They asked him, Who is this man that told you to do this?
13But the man didn't know who it was that healed him.
For Jesus had disapeared into the crowd.14Afterwards, Jesus founnd him in the temple,
and said to him, Look now you are well don't carry on like before.
Be careful not to get yourself into a worst state, by sinning.
15So the man went, and told the Jews that it was Jesus
who had healed him.
Jesus does the will of his Father.
16Because he did these things on the sabbath,
the Jews persecuted Jesus.
17So he told them, I work because my Father's business is still to be done.
18Now the Jews wanted to kill him because, not only did he break the sabbath,
but also he was making himself equal with God, by calling God his father.
19So Jesus answered them, In all truth, I say to you,
The Son can do nothing of himself, he only does what he sees the Father doing.
The son is only imitating what his father does.20
For the Father loves the Son, and
shows him these things to do. Indeed, he will show him even greater things than these,
that will amaze you.21For as the Father raises the dead
and gives life, so the Son also gives life to anyone he chooses. 22
For the Father doesn't judge any man, but has given all
judgement to the Son.23
So that everyone may honour the Son, just as they honour
the Father. Likewise, anyone that refuses to honour the Son refuses to honour the Father.
The testimony of Jesus' Word.
24In all truth, I say to you, Anyone that hears my word, and
believes in him that sent me, has eternal life. They won't come under judgement,
but have passed from death to life.25
In all truth, I say to you, The
hour is here, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God, and live.26
For as the Father has life, He gives to the Son so that he also has life.
27He also gave him
authority to execute judgement, because he is a son of man.
28Don't be shocked at
this. For the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice,
29 and rise: The ones that have done good, to the
resurrection of life, and the ones that have done evil, to the resurrection of judgement.
30I can do nothing by myself. I judge by what I receive. My judgement
is good and proper, because I do not seek to please myself, but the One that sent
me.
The testimony of John the Baptist.
31If I testify about myself, then my testimony is not valid.32
However, there is another that speaks on my behalf,
and I know that his testimony is true.
33You asked John, and he told you the
truth.34But I don't depend on man's testimony. I only say
this, so that you may be saved.35
He was a light, and you were quite happy to bask in his radiance while he shone.
The testimony of God.
36But the testimony I have is greater than John's.
Just look at the signs the Father has given me to perform.
They should prove that the Father has sent me.37
The Father is my advocate.
However, you have never heard his voice, nor have you ever seen him.
38His word does not live in you, because you refuse to believe
the one he sent.39
The testimony of Scripture.
You search the scriptures, thinking that
you will find eternal life in them. It is these same Scriptures that speak of me.
40However, you still refuse to come to me, and have life.
41I don't need any man's praise.42
Still, I know that you don't have the love of God in
you.43
The testimony of Moses.
Because you don't receive me when I come in my Father’s name. However, if another
comes in his own name, you'll receive him.44
How can you believe, when all you seek is one another's approval, at the expense of
the approval of the one and only God?45
Do not think that I will accuse you before the
Father. No! Your accuser will be the one on whom you have set
your hope, Moses.46
For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me now.
Because it was me he wrote about.47
But if you don't believe his writings, how are you ever going to believe my
words?
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