So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”