MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 Now there was a man from the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
3:2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for* no one is able to do these signs that you are doing, if God is not with him.

3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, If one has not been born anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

3:4 Nicodemus says to him, How is a man able to be born when he is elderly? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb a second time and to be born again, is he?

3:5 Jesus answered, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, If one has not been born out of water and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God!
3:6 That which is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, It is essential for you* to be born anew.
3:8 The Spirit is blowing where he wills and you hear his voice, but do not know from where he is coming and where he is going so is everyone who is born from the Spirit.

3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How are these things able to happen?

3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?
3:11 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, We speak what we know, and testify of what we have seen, and you* do not receive our testimony.
3:12 If I told you* earthly things and you* do not believe, how will you* believe, if I tell you* heavenly things?
3:13 And no one has ascended into heaven, except he who came down from heaven, that is the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
3:14 And like Moses who exalted the serpent in the wilderness, so it is essential for the Son of Man to also be exalted;
3:15 in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish but may have everlasting life.

3:16 For* God so loved* the world, that he gave his Son, the only begotten, in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but may have everlasting life.
3:17 For* God did not send the Son into the world in order that he might judge the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
3:18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
3:19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved* the darkness rather than the light; for* their works were evil.
3:20 For* everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light, and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him.
3:21 But he who practices the truth comes to the light, that* his works might be manifest, that they have been worked in God.

3:22 After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of the Jews, and he stayed with them and immersed* there.
3:23 And John was also immersing* in Aenon near to Salem, because many bodies of water were there, and they came and were being immersed*.
3:24 For* John was not yet cast into prison.
3:25 Therefore there happened to be a debate from John's disciples with a Jew concerning the cleansing.
3:26 And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, this man immerses* and all men are going to him.

3:27 John answered and said, A man is able to receive nothing, if it has not been given to him from heaven.
3:28 You* yourselves testify, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent in front of him.
3:29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore in this, my joy has been fulfilled.
3:30 It is essential for him to grow, but for me to diminish.

3:31 He who is coming from above is over all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth. He who is coming from heaven is over all.
3:32 And what he has seen and heard, he is testifying of that, and no one receives his testimony.
3:33 He who has received his testimony has sealed this: that God is true.
3:34 For* he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for* God does not give the Spirit by measure.
3:35 The Father loves* the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, but he who is disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God is remaining upon him.
{Mk 1:14a & Mt 4:12 & Lk 3:19-20 & Jn 4:1-4 Judea to Galilee.}