John 3:11-17
3:11 I tell you the solemn truth,
we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but
you people
do not accept our testimony.
3:12 If I have told you people
about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
3:13 No one
has ascended
into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man.
3:14 Just as
Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
3:16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.