The Gospel of John for Readers | Page 3

showed forth His glory and His disciples believed on Him.
After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brethren,
and His disciples. They continued there for a few days. The passover
was at hand. Jesus went up to Jerusalem and found in the temple those
that sold oxen and sheep and doves and changers of money sitting. And
when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of
the temple and overthrew the tables. He said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence. Make not my Father's house a house of
merchandise. Here His disciples remembered that it was written, The
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign showest Thou
unto us, seeing that Thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said
unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and
wilt Thou raise it up again in three days? But He spoke of the temple of
His body. When, therefore, He was risen from the dead, His disciples
remembered that He had said this to them and they believed the
scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
When He was in Jerusalem at the passover feast day, many believed in
His name when they saw the miracles which He did. But Jesus did not
commit Himself.
3. There was a man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the
Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said unto Him, Rabbi, we know
that Thou art a teacher come from God because no man can do these
miracles that Thou doest unless God be with Him. Jesus answered and
said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born
again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto Him,
How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time
into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of

water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That
which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The
wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound but cannot tell
whence it cometh and whither it goeth. The same is as I have said of
the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel and
knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak
what we know, testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye
believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
No man hath ascended up to heaven except He that came down from
heaven, the Son of man. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up so that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God
sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world,
through Him, might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not
condemned. But he that believeth not is condemned already because he
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
This is the condemnation: light is come into the world and men loved
darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Every one that
doeth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light lest his deeds
should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his
deeds may be shown that they are wrought in God.
After these things Jesus and His disciples went into the land of Judaea.
There He tarried with them and baptized. And John also was baptizing
in Aenon near to Salim because there was much water there, so many
people came and were baptized. For John was not yet cast into prison.
A question arose between some of John's disciples and the Jews about
purifying. They went to John and said, Rabbi, He that was with thee

beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, He baptizeth and
all men come to Him.
John answered and said, A man can