John 3:12-20 (Jesus replied Nicodemus) But if you don’t even believe Me when I tell you about such things as these that happen here among men, how can you possibly believe if I tell you what is going on in heaven? ¹³ For only I, the Messiah, have come to earth and will return to heaven again.
14 And as Moses in the wilderness lifted up the bronze image of a serpent on a pole, even so I must be lifted up upon a pole, ¹⁵ so that anyone who believes in Me will have eternal life.
16 For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.
19 Their sentence is based on this fact: that the light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the Light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ They hated heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in the darkness. They stayed away from that light for fear of their sins would be exposed and they would be punished. TLBV