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money-changers sitting there.
002:015 So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and
bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on
the ground and overturned their tables. 002:016 And to the
pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my
Father's house into a market." 002:017 This recalled to His disciples the
words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."
002:018 So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you
exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?" 002:019 "Demolish this
Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it." 002:020 "It
has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary,
and will you rebuild it in three days?" 002:021 But He was speaking of
the Sanctuary of His body. 002:022 When however He had risen from
among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and
they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given
them. 002:023 Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the
Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the
miracles He performed. 002:024 But for His part, Jesus did not trust
Himself to them, because He knew them all, 002:025 and did not need
any one's testimony concerning a man, for He of Himself knew what
was in the man. 003:001 Now there was one of the Pharisees whose
name was Nicodemus-- a ruler among the Jews. 003:002 He came to
Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from
God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God
is with him. 003:003 "In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus,
"that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
003:004 "How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born

when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be
born?" 003:005 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that
unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
Kingdom of God. 003:006 Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh,
and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit. 003:007 Do not be
astonished at my telling you, `You must all be born anew.' 003:008 The
wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not
know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one
who has been born of the Spirit." 003:009 "How is all this possible?"
asked Nicodemus. 003:010 "Are you," replied Jesus, "`the Teacher of
Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things? 003:011 In most
solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony
of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our
testimony. 003:012 If I have told you earthly things and none of you
believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven?
003:013 There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One
who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose
home is in Heaven. 003:014 And just as Moses lifted high the serpent
in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 003:015 in order
that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."
003:016 For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only
Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the
Life of Ages. 003:017 For God did not send His Son into the world to
judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
003:018 He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He
who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not
his trust resting on the name of God's only Son. 003:019 And this is the
test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and
men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their
deeds were wicked. 003:020 For every wrongdoer hates the light, and
does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and
condemned. 003:021 But he who does what is honest and right comes
to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been
done in God. 003:022 After this Jesus and His disciples went into
Judaea; and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.
003:023 And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim,