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“33 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.” In the previous passage John the Baptist mentions the difference between himself and Jesus. John is from the earth so can only…
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John 3:31-32
“He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.” We saw in the last passage…
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John 3:28-30
“28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must…
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John 3:25-27
“25 Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, ‘Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.’ 27 John answered, ‘A person cannot receive even one thing…
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John 3:22-24
“22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 24 for John had not yet been put in prison.” In the previous passage Jesus…
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John 3:19-21
“And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes…
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John 3:18
“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” In the last passage Jesus explained that He did not condemn the world but came to save it, flipping the idea of the religious leaders…
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John 3:17
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” The last verse was the main reason Jesus was there, and the reason people can see and enter into the kingdom of God. God loved the world and so…
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John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” In the first part of this chapter, Jesus explained to a religious leader, Nicodemus, the spiritual change which must take place for a person to see and enter the kingdom…
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John 3:13-15
“13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” In the last couple verses Jesus told Nicodemus that he…
