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¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

²this man came to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

³Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is bornagain he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

⁴Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”

⁵Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

⁶That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be bornagain.’

⁸The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus responded and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you people do not accept our testimony.

¹²If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³No one has ascended into heaven, except He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.

¹⁴And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

¹⁵so that everyone whobelieves will have eternal life in Him.

¹⁶“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁷For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁸The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

²¹But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealedas having been performed in God.”

²²After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He was spending time with them and baptizing.

²³Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there; and people were coming and being baptized—

²⁴for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

²⁵Then a matter of dispute developed on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.

²⁶And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing and all the people are coming to Him.”

²⁷John replied, “A person can receive not even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

²⁹He who has the bride is the groom; but the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly because of the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹“He who comes from above is above all; the one who is only from the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³²What He has seen and heard, of this He testifies; and no one accepts His testimony.

³³The one who has accepted His testimony has certified that God is true.

³⁴For He whom God sent speaks the words of God; for He does not give the Spirit sparingly.

³⁵The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to His hand.

³⁶The one who believes in the Son has eternal life; but the one who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

¹So then, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

²(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His disciples were),

³He left Judea and went away again to Galilee.

⁴And He had to pass through Samaria.

⁵So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

⁶and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

⁸For His disciples had gone away to the city to buy food.

⁹So the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹She *said to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?

¹²You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again;

¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.”

¹⁶He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

¹⁷The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;

¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.”

¹⁹The woman *said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.”

²¹Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, thata time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

²²You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

²³Buta time is coming, andeven now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to beHis worshipers.

²⁴God isspirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

²⁶Jesus *said to her, “I am He, the One speaking to you.”

²⁷And at this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What are You seeking?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?”

²⁸So the woman left her waterpot and went into the city, and *said to the people,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is He?”

³⁰They left the city and were coming to Him.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”

³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”

³⁴Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.

³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields, that they are white for harvest.

³⁶Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you havecome into their labor.”

³⁹Now from that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of His word;

⁴²and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is the Savior of the world.”

⁴³And after the two days, He departed from there for Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

⁴⁶Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people seesigns and wonders, you simply will not believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰Jesus *said to him, “Go; your sonis alive.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home.

⁵¹And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was alive.

⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son is alive”; and he himself believed, and his entire household.

⁵⁴This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come from Judea into Galilee.