Daily Learning

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nakdimon, one of the Jewish leaders. ²The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

³Yeshua answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

⁴Nakdimon said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

⁵Yeshua answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter the Kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ ⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nakdimon answered him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰Yeshua answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? ¹¹Most certainly I tell you, we speak what we know, and testify of what we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. ¹²If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?”

¹³No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Human, who is in heaven. ¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Human be lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁶For this is how God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. ¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. ¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. ²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.

²²After these things, Yeshua came with his disciples into the land of Yehudah. He stayed there with them and immersed. ²³Yochanan also was immersing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were immersed; ²⁴for Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison. ²⁵Therefore a dispute arose on the part of Yochanan’s disciples with some Jews about purification. ²⁶They came to Yochanan and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he immerses, and everyone is coming to him.”

²⁷Yochanan answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. ²⁸You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ ²⁹He who has the bride is the groom; but the friend of the groom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the groom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. ³²What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. ³³He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. ³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. ³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”