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New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
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| 3 1 | THERE WAS ONE of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish Council, | Jesus and Nicodemus Jn.3.1-21 (Jerusalem) | Ἦν δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων, Νικόδημος ὀνομα αὐτῷ, ἀρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων· |
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| 2 | who came to Jesus by night. 'Rabbi,' he said, 'we know that you are a teacher sent by God; no one could perform these signs of yours unless God were with him.' | | οὗτος ἦλθεν πρὸς αὐτὸν νυκτὸς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ῥαββί, οἰδαμεν ὅτι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ἐλήλυθας διδάσκαλος· οὐδεὶς γὰρ δύναται ταῦτα τὰ σημεῖα ποιεῖν ἂ σὺ ποιεῖς, ἐὰν μὴ ᾖ ὁ θεὸς μετ' αὐτοῦ. |
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| 3 | Jesus answered, 'In truth, in very truth I tell you, unless a man has been born over again he cannot see the kingdom of God.' | | ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἀνωθεν, οὐ δύναται ἰδεῖν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ. |
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| 4 | 'But how is it possible', said Nicodemus, 'for a man to be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born?' | | λέγει πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ Νικόδημος, Πῶς δύναται ἄνθρωπος γεννηθῆναι γέρων ὠν; μὴ δύναται εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ δεύτερον εἰσελθεῖν καὶ γεννηθῆναὶ; |
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| 5 | Jesus answered, 'In truth I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born from water and spirit. | | ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς, Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ ὑδατος καὶ πνεύματος, οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ. |
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| 6 | Flesh can give birth only to flesh; it is spirit that gives birth to spirit. | | τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς σάρξ ἐστιν, καὶ τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος πνεῦμά ἐστιν. |
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| 7 | You ought not to be astonished, then, when I tell you that you must be born over again. | | μὴ θαυμάσῃς ὅτι εἶπόν σοι, Δεῖ ὑμᾶς γεννηθῆναι ἀνωθεν. |
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| 8 | The wind wind and spirit are translations of the same Greek word, which has both meanings. blows where it wills; you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So with everyone who is born from spirit.'
| | τὸ Πνεῦμα ὁπου θέλει πνεῖ, καὶ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ ἀκούεις, ἀλλ' οὐκ οἶδας πόθεν ἐρχεται καὶ ποῦ ὑπάγει· οὑτως ἐστὶν πᾶς ὁ γεγεννημένος ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος. |
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| 9 | Nicodemus replied, 'How is this possible?' | | ἀπεκρίθη Νικόδημος καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Πῶς δύναται ταῦτα γενέσθαὶ; |
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| 10 | 'What!' said Jesus. 'Is this famous teacher of Israel ignorant of such things? | | ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Σὺ εἶ ὁ διδάσκαλος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ταῦτα οὐ γινώσκεις; |
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| 11 | In very truth I tell you, we speak of what we know, and testify to what we have seen, and yet you all reject our testimony. | | ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι ὅτι ὃ οἰδαμεν λαλοῦμεν καὶ ὃ ἑωράκαμεν μαρτυροῦμεν, καὶ τὴν μαρτυρίαν ἡμῶν οὐ λαμβάνετε. |
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| 12 | If you disbelieve me when I talk to you about things on earth, how are you to believe if I should talk about the things of heaven?
| | εἰ τὰ ἐπίγεια εἶπον ὑμῖν καὶ οὐ πιστεύετε, πῶς ἐὰν εἰπω ὑμῖν τὰ ἐπουράνια πιστεύσετὲ; |
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| 13 | 'No one ever went up into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man whose home is in heaven. Some witnesses omit: whose home is in heaven. | | καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. |
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| 14 | This Son of Man must be lifted up as the serpent was lifted up by Moses in the wilderness, | | καὶ καθὼς Μωϋσῆς ὑψωσεν τὸν ὀφιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, οὑτως ὑψωθῆναι δεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, |
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| 15 | so that everyone who has faith in him may in him possess eternal life.
| | ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων ἐν αὐτῷ ἐχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. |
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| 16 | 'God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life. | | Οὑτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὡστε τὸν υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἐδωκεν, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται ἀλλ' ἐχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. |
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| 17 | It was not to judge the world that God sent his Son into the world, but that through him the world might be saved.
| | οὐ γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα κρίνῃ τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ' ἵνα σωθῇ ὁ κόσμος δῖ αὐτοῦ. |
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| 18 | 'The man who puts his faith in him does not come under judgement; but the unbeliever has already been judged in that he has not given his allegiance to God's only Son. | | ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν οὐ κρίνεται· ὁ δὲ μὴ πιστεύων ἠδη κέκριται, ὅτι μὴ πεπίστευκεν εἰς τὸ ὀνομα τοῦ μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ. |
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| 19 | Here lies the test: the light has come into the world, but men preferred darkness to light because their deeds were evil. | | αὑτη δέ ἐστιν ἡ κρίσις, ὅτι τὸ φῶς ἐλήλυθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον καὶ ἠγάπησαν οἱ ἄνθρωποι μᾶλλον τὸ σκότος ἢ τὸ φῶς, ἦν γὰρ αὐτῶν πονηρὰ τὰ ἐργα. |
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| 20 | Bad men all hate the light and avoid it, for fear their practices should be shown up. | | πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φαῦλα πράσσων μισεῖ τὸ φῶς καὶ οὐκ ἐρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα μὴ ἐλεγχθῇ τὰ ἐργα αὐτοῦ· |
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| 21 | The honest man comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that God is in all he does.'
| | ὁ δὲ ποιῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα φανερωθῇ αὐτοῦ τὰ ἐργα ὅτι ἐν θεῷ ἐστιν εἰργασμένα. |
