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  • 1. There was a man of the pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Iewes.
  • 2. The same came to Iesus by night, & said vnto him: Rabbi, we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man coulde do these miracles that thou doest, except God were with him.
  • 3. Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne agayne, he can not see the kyngdome of God.
  • 4. Nicodemus sayth vnto hym: Howe can a man be borne when he is olde? can he enter into his mothers wombe, and be borne agayne?
  • 5. Iesus aunswered: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne of water and of the spirite, he can not enter into the kyngdome of God.
  • 6. That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite.
  • 7. Maruayle not thou that I sayde to thee, ye must be borne agayne.
  • 8. The wynde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sounde therof: but canst not tell whence it commeth, and whither it goeth. So is euery one that is borne of the spirite.
  • 9. Nicodemus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: howe can these thynges be?
  • 10. Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Art thou a maister in Israel, and knowest not thesethynges?
  • 11. Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, we speake that we do knowe, & testifie that we haue seene: and ye receaue not our witnesse.
  • 12. If I haue tolde you earthly thynges, and ye beleue not: howe shall ye beleue, yf I tell you of heauenly thynges?
  • 13. And no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that came downe from heauen, euen the sonne of man which is in heauen.
  • 14. And as Moyses lyft vp the serpent in the wyldernesse: euen so must the sonne of man be lyft vp:
  • 15. That whosoeuer beleueth in hym, perishe not, but haue eternall lyfe.
  • 16. For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe.
  • 17. For God sent not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through hym myght be saued. He that beleueth on hym, is not condempned:
  • 18. But he that beleueth not, is condempned alredy, because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotte sonne of God.
  • 19. And this is the condempnation: that lyght is come into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then lyght, because their deedes were euyll.
  • 20. For euery one that euyll doeth, hateth the lyght: neither commeth to the light, lest his deedes shoulde be reproued.
  • 21. But he that doeth trueth, cometh to the lyght, yt his deedes may be knowen, howe that they are wrought in God.
  • 22. After these thynges, came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iurie, and there he taryed with the, & baptized.
  • 23. And Iohn also baptized in Enon, besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
  • 24. For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.
  • 25. And there arose a question betwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes, about purifiyng.
  • 26. And they came vnto Iohn, and sayde vnto hym: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyonde Iordane, to whom thou barest witnesse, beholde the same baptizeth, and all men come to hym.
  • 27. Iohn aunswered, and sayde: A man can receaue nothyng, except it be geuen hym from heauen.
  • 28. Ye your selues are witnesses, howe that I sayde I am not Christe, but am sent before hym.
  • 29. He that hath ye bride, is the bridegrome. But the friende of the brydegrome, which standeth & heareth him, reioyceth greatly because of ye brydegromes voyce. This my ioy therfore is fulfylled.
  • 30. He must increace, but I must decreace.
  • 31. He that commeth from an hye, is aboue all: He that is of the earth, is earthlye, and speaketh of the earth. He that commeth from heauen, is aboue all:
  • 32. And what he hath seene and hearde, that he testifieth: and no man receaueth his testimonie.
  • 33. He that hath receaued his testimonie, hath set to his seale, that God is true.
  • 34. For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the wordes of God: For God geueth not the spirite by measure vnto hym.
  • 35. The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen all thynges into his hande.
  • 36. He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastyng lyfe: He that beleueth not the sonne, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abydeth on hym.