(9)Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? (10)Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11)Verily, verily, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. (12)If I told you the earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly things? (13)And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. (14)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; (15)that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. (16)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. (17)For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (18)He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God. (19)And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. (20)For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (21)But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (22)After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he remained with them, and immersed. (23)And John also was immersing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and they came, and were immersed. (24)For John was not yet cast into prison. (25)There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification. (26)And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.