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Today's Bible Reading :: John 3 - 4 (ESV)

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John 3

You Must Be Born Again

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:1 - Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:2 - This man came to Jesus[fn] 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:3 - Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again[fn] he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:4 - Nicodemus 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?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:5 - Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:6 - That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:7 - Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You[fn] must be born again.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:8 - The wind[fn] blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:9 - Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:10 - Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:11 - Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you[fn] do not receive our testimony.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:12 - If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:13 - No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:14 - And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:15 - that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[fn]

For God So Loved the World

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16 - “For God so loved the world,[fn] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:17 - For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:18 - Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:19 - And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:20 - For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:21 - But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John the Baptist Exalts Christ

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:22 - After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:23 - John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:24 - (for John had not yet been put in prison).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:25 - Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:26 - And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:27 - John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:28 - You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:29 - The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:30 - He must increase, but I must decrease.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:31 - He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:32 - He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:33 - Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:34 - For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:35 - The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
ESV Footnotes
Greek him
Or from above; the Greek is purposely ambiguous and can mean both again and from above; also verse 7
The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
The Greek for you is plural here
The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
The Greek for you is plural here; also four times in verse 12
Some manuscripts add who is in heaven
Some interpreters hold that the quotation ends at verse 15
Or For this is how God loved the world
Some interpreters hold that the quotation continues through verse 36

John 4

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:1 - Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:2 - (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:3 - he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:4 - And he had to pass through Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:5 - So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:6 - Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:7 - A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:8 - (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:9 - The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:10 - Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:11 - The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:12 - Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:13 - Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:14 - but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[fn] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:15 - The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:16 - Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:17 - The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:18 - for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:19 - The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:20 - Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:21 - Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:22 - You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:23 - But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:24 - God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:25 - The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:26 - Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:27 - Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:28 - So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:29 - “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:30 - They went out of the town and were coming to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:31 - Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:32 - But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:33 - So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:34 - Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:37 - For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:38 - I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:39 - Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:40 - So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:41 - And many more believed because of his word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:42 - They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:43 - After the two days he departed for Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:44 - (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:45 - So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46 - So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:47 - When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:48 - So Jesus said to him, “Unless you[fn] see signs and wonders you will not believe.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:49 - The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:50 - Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:51 - As he was going down, his servants[fn] met him and told him that his son was recovering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:52 - So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour[fn] the fever left him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:53 - The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:54 - This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
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ESV Footnotes
That is, about noon
Greek forever
The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse
Or bondservants
That is, at 1 p.m.
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