John 3

Bishops^{(i) 1} There was a man of the pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Iewes ² The same came to Iesus by night, & said vnto him: Rabbi, we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man coulde do these miracles that thou doest, except God were with him ³ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne agayne, he can not see the kyngdome of God ⁴ Nicodemus sayth vnto hym: Howe can a man be borne when he is olde? can he enter into his mothers wombe, and be borne agayne ⁵ Iesus aunswered: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne of water and of the spirite, he can not enter into the kyngdome of God ⁶ That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite ⁷ Maruayle not thou that I sayde to thee, ye must be borne agayne ⁸ The wynde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sounde therof: but canst not tell whence it commeth, and whither it goeth. So is euery one that is borne of the spirite ⁹ Nicodemus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: howe can these thynges be ¹⁰ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Art thou a maister in Israel, and knowest not thesethynges ¹¹ Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, we speake that we do knowe, & testifie that we haue seene: and ye receaue not our witnesse ¹² If I haue tolde you earthly thynges, and ye beleue not: howe shall ye beleue, yf I tell you of heauenly thynges ¹³ And no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that came downe from heauen, euen the sonne of man which is in heauen ¹⁴ And as Moyses lyft vp the serpent in the wyldernesse: euen so must the sonne of man be lyft vp ¹⁵ That whosoeuer beleueth in hym, perishe not, but haue eternall lyfe ¹⁶ For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe ¹⁷ For God sent not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through hym myght be saued. He that beleueth on hym, is not condempned ¹⁸ But he that beleueth not, is condempned alredy, because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotte sonne of God ¹⁹ And this is the condempnation: that lyght is come into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then lyght, because their deedes were euyll ²⁰ For euery one that euyll doeth, hateth the lyght: neither commeth to the light, lest his deedes shoulde be reproued ²¹ But he that doeth trueth, cometh to the lyght, yt his deedes may be knowen, howe that they are wrought in God ²² After these thynges, came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iurie, and there he taryed with the, & baptized ²³ And Iohn also baptized in Enon, besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized ²⁴ For Iohn was not yet cast into prison ²⁵ And there arose a question betwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes, about purifiyng ²⁶ And they came vnto Iohn, and sayde vnto hym: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyonde Iordane, to whom thou barest witnesse, beholde the same baptizeth, and all men come to hym ²⁷ Iohn aunswered, and sayde: A man can receaue nothyng, except it be geuen hym from heauen ²⁸ Ye your selues are witnesses, howe that I sayde I am not Christe, but am sent before hym ²⁹ He that hath ye bride, is the bridegrome. But the friende of the brydegrome, which standeth & heareth him, reioyceth greatly because of ye brydegromes voyce. This my ioy therfore is fulfylled ³⁰ He must increace, but I must decreace ³¹ He that commeth from an hye, is aboue all: He that is of the earth, is earthlye, and speaketh of the earth. He that commeth from heauen, is aboue all ³² And what he hath seene and hearde, that he testifieth: and no man receaueth his testimonie ³³ He that hath receaued his testimonie, hath set to his seale, that God is true ³⁴ For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the wordes of God: For God geueth not the spirite by measure vnto hym ³⁵ The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen all thynges into his hande ³⁶ He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastyng lyfe: He that beleueth not the sonne, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abydeth on hym