Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God.

God sent John the Baptist as a witness to the fact that Jesus Christ is the true Light.

Even in his own land and among his own people, the Jews, he was not accepted. Only a few would welcome and receive him. But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they needed to do was to trust him to save them.

All those who believe this are reborn!—not a physical rebirth resulting from human passion or plan—but from the will of God.

John pointed him out to the people, telling the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming who is greater by far than I am—for he existed long before I did!’”

No one has ever actually seen God, but, of course, his only Son has, for he is the companion of the Father and has told us all about him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin!

He is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Soon a man far greater than I am is coming, who existed long before me!’

“I didn’t know he was the one,” John said again, “but at the time God sent me to baptize he told me, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit descending and resting upon someone—he is the one you are looking for. He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

I saw it happen to this man, and I therefore testify that he is the Son of God.”

Jesus walked by. John looked at him intently and then declared, “See! There is the Lamb of God!”

(One of these men was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.)

Nathanael replied, “Sir, you are the Son of God—the King of Israel!”

Jesus asked him, “Do you believe all this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater proofs than this.

You will even see heaven open and the angels of God coming back and forth to me, the Messiah.”

Then, going over to the men selling doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Don’t turn my Father’s House into a market!”

Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Concern for God’s House will be my undoing.”

“What right have you to order them out?” the Jewish leaders demanded. “If you have this authority from God, show us a miracle to prove it.”

After dark one night a Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus, a member of the sect of the Pharisees, came for an interview with Jesus. “Sir,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miracles are proof enough of this.”

Jesus replied, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you are born again, you can never get into the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus replied, “What I am telling you so earnestly is this: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Men can only reproduce human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven;

But if you don’t even believe me when I tell you about such things as these that happen here among men, how can you possibly believe if I tell you what is going on in heaven?

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.