John 3:9-15

New International Version

⁹ “How can this be?”^(A) Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,”^(B) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,^(C) and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.^{(D) 12} I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven^(E) except the one who came from heaven^(F)—the Son of Man.^{[a](G) 14} Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(H) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^{[b](I) 15} that everyone who believes^(J) may have eternal life in him.”^[c](K)