3:11. Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. 3:12. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things? 3:13. And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. 3:14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: 3:15. That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. 3:16. For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. 3:17. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him. 3:18. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Is not judged. . .He that believeth, viz., by a faith working through charity, is not judged, that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate unbeliever is judged, that is, condemned already, by retrenching himself from the society of Christ and his church. 3:19. And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. The judgment. . .That is, the cause of his comdemnation. 3:20. For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. 3:21. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God. He that doth truth. . .that is, he that acteth according to truth, which here signifies the Law of God. Thy law is truth. Psa. 118. 142. 3:22. After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized. 3:23. And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized. 3:24. For John was not yet cast into prison. 3:25. And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, concerning purification. 3:26. And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony: behold, he baptizeth and all men come to him. 3:27. John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. 3:28. You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him. 3:29. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. 3:30. He must increase: but I must decrease.