¹But there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the JEWS.

This one came to Him by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a  ¹teacher, for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is  ¹born anew, he cannot  ²see the  ³kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?

Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born  ¹of  ²water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

That which is born  ¹of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born  ¹of the  ²Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I said to you,  ¹You must be born anew.

The  ¹wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it goes; so is everyone who is born  ²of the Spirit.

Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be?

Jesus answered and said to him, You are a teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things?

Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and yet you do not receive our testimony.

If I told you of the  ¹things on earth and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of the  ¹things in heaven?

And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man,  ¹who is in heaven.

And as Moses lifted up the  ¹serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

That everyone who believes into Him may have  ¹eternal life.

For God so loved the  ¹world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone who  ²believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into the world to  ¹condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

He who believes into Him is not  ¹condemned; but he who does not believe has been  ¹condemned already, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the  ¹condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.

For everyone who  ¹practices evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works be  ²reproved.

But he who does the  ¹truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they are wrought in God.

After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He spent some time with them and baptized.

And John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were baptized;

For John had not yet been thrown into prison.

There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification.

And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He who was with you across the Jordan, of whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.

John answered and said, A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves testify of me that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before Him.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This joy of mine therefore is made full.

He must  ¹increase, but I must decrease.

 ¹He who comes from above is above all; he who is  ²from the earth is  ²of the earth and speaks  ²out of the earth. He who comes  ²from heaven is above all.

What He has seen and heard, of this He testifies, and no one receives His testimony.

He who receives His testimony has sealed that God is true.

For He whom God has sent speaks the  ¹words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.

The Father loves the Son and has given all into His hand.

He who believes into the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(Although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but rather His disciples),

He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

And He had to pass through Samaria.

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

And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from the journey, sat thus by the  ¹well; it was about the  ²sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me something to drink.

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

The Samaritan woman then said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with  ¹Samaritans.)

Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.

The woman said to Him, Sir, You have no bucket, and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?

Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who  ¹drinks of this water shall thirst again,

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up into  ¹eternal life.

The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst nor come here to draw.

He said to her, Go,  ¹call your husband and come here.

The woman answered and said, I do not have a husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I do not have a husband,

For you have had  ¹five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.

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

 ¹Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship.

Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

But an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him.

 ¹God is  ²Spirit, and those who  ³worship Him must worship in  ⁴spirit and  ⁵truthfulness.

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

Jesus said to her,  ¹I, who speak to you, am He.

And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What are You seeking? or, Why are You speaking with her?

Then the woman  ¹left her waterpot and went away into the city, and said to the people,

Come, see a man who told me all that I have done.  ¹Is this not the Christ?

They went out of the city and came to Him.

In the meantime, the disciples urged Him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

But He said to them,  ¹I have food to eat that you do not know about.

The disciples therefore said to one another, Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?

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

Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit  ¹unto  ²eternal life, in order that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored;  ¹others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all that I have done.

So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them, and He remained there two days.

And many more believed because of His word.

And they said to the woman, It is no longer because of your speaking that we believe, for we ourselves have heard and know that this One is truly the Savior of the world.

And after the two days He went forth from there into Galilee,

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has  ¹no honor in his own country.

Then when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all that He did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

He then came again to  ¹Cana of  ²Galilee, where He had made the water wine.

And there was a certain royal official, whose son was sick in Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.

The royal official said to Him, Sir, come down before my little child dies.

Jesus said to him, Go, your son lives. The man believed the  ¹word which Jesus said to him and went his way.

And as he was now going down, his slaves met him and said that his child was living.

So he asked them the hour in which he got better. They said then to him, Yesterday at the  ¹seventh hour the fever left him.

Then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he believed, he and his whole house.

Again, this  ¹second sign Jesus performed when He came out of Judea into Galilee.