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JoHN 3
Jesus Clears the Temple
13 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover
celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices;
he also saw dealers at tables exchanging
foreign money. 15 Jesus made a whip from
some ropes and chased them all out of the
Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle,
scattered the money changers’ coins over
the floor, and turned over their tables.
16 Then, going over to the people who sold
doves, he told them, “Get these things out of
here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a
marketplace!”
17 Then his disciples remembered this
prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for
God’s house will consume me.”*
18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What
are you doing? If God gave you authority to do
this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”
19“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken
forty-six years to build this Temple, and you
can rebuild it in three days?” 21But when Jesus
said “this temple,” he meant his own body.
22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they
believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus
had said.
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Jesus and Nicodemus
23 Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in
Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many
began to trust in him. 24But Jesus didn’t trust
them, because he knew all about people. 25No
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John the Baptist Exalts Jesus
There was a man named Nicodemus, a
Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. 2After dark one evening, he came to speak
with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that
God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous
signs are evidence that God is with you.”
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless
you are born again,* you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his
mother’s womb and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can
enter the Kingdom of God without being born
of water and the Spirit.* 6Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives
birth to spiritual life.* 7So don’t be surprised
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how people are born of the Spirit.”
9 “How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.
10 Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish
teacher, and yet you don’t understand these
things? 11 I assure you, we tell you what we
know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony. 12But if you don’t believe
me when I tell you about earthly things, how
can you possibly believe if I tell you about
heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone to
this heaven and returned. But the Son of Man*
for has come down from heaven. 14And as Moses
lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the
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18 “There is no judgment against anyone
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for not believing in God’s one and only Son.
19And the judgment is based on this fact:
God’s light came into the world, but people
did in loved the darkness more than the light, for
many their actions were evil. 20All who do evil hate
trust the light and refuse to go near it for fear their
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ture, is right come to the light so others can see
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John the Baptist Exalts Jesus
22 Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem
and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus
spent some time with them there, baptizing
people.
23At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was
plenty of water there; and people kept coming
to him for baptism. 24 (This was before John
was thrown into prison.) 25A debate broke out
between John’s disciples and a certain Jew*
over ceremonial cleansing. 26 So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Rabbi, the man
you met on the other side of the Jordan River,
the one you identified as the Messiah, is also
baptizing people. And everybody is going to
him instead of coming to us.”
