Jesus and Nicodemus (Genesis 22:1–10; Romans 5:6–11)
1 TNT Ther was a man of the pharises named Nicodemus a ruler amonge the Iewes. BSB BSB: Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
2 TNT The same cam to Iesus by nyght and sayde vnto him: Rabbi we knowe that thou arte a teacher whiche arte come from God. For no man coulde do suche miracles as thou doest except God were with him. BSB BSB: He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
3 TNT Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be boren a newe he cannot se the kyngdom of God. BSB BSB: Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
4 TNT Nicodemus sayde vnto him: how can a man be boren when he is olde? can he enter into his moders wombe and be boren agayne? BSB BSB: “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
5 TNT Iesus answered: verely verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be boren of water and of the sprete he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god. BSB BSB: Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
6 TNT That which is boren of the flesshe is flesshe: and that which is boren of the sprete is sprete. BSB BSB: Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
7 TNT Marvayle not that I sayd to the ye must be boren a newe. BSB BSB: Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
8 TNT The wynde bloweth where he listeth and thou hearest his sounde: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whether he goeth. So is every man that is boren of the sprete. BSB BSB: The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
9 TNT And Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him: how can these thinges be? BSB BSB: “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10 TNT Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou a master in Israel and knowest not these thinges? BSB BSB: “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
11 TNT Verely verely I saye vnto the we speake that we knowe and testify that we have sene: and ye receave not oure witnes. BSB BSB: Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
12 TNT Yf when I tell you erthely thinges ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve yf I shall tell you of hevenly thinges? BSB BSB: If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
13 TNT And no man ascendeth vp to heaven but he that came doune from heaven that is to saye the sonne of man which is in heaven. BSB BSB: No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14 TNT And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the wyldernes even so must the sonne of man be lifte vp, BSB BSB: Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 TNT that none that beleveth in him perisshe: but have eternall lyfe. BSB BSB: that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
17 TNT For God sent not his sonne into the worlde to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through him might be saved. BSB BSB: For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
18 TNT He that beleveth on him shall not be condempned. But he that beleveth not is condempned all redy be cause he beleveth not in the name of the only sonne of God. BSB BSB: Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 TNT And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the worlde and the me loved darcknes more then light because their dedes were evill. BSB BSB: And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
20 TNT For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved. BSB BSB: Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 TNT But he that doth truth commeth to the light that his dedes might be knowen how that they are wrought in God. BSB BSB: But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
John’s Testimony about Jesus 22 TNT After these thinges cam Iesus and his disciples into the Iewes londe and ther he haunted with them and baptised. BSB BSB: After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
23 TNT And Iohn also baptised in Enon besydes Salim because ther was moche water there and they came and were baptised. BSB BSB: Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
24 TNT For Iohn was not yet cast into preson. BSB BSB: (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25 TNT And ther arose a question bitwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes about purifiynge. BSB BSB: Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
26 TNT And they came vnto Iohn and sayde vnto him: Rabbi he that was with the beyonde Iordan to whom thou barest witnes. Beholde the same baptyseth and all me come to him. BSB BSB: So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
27 TNT Iohn answered and sayde: a man can receave no thinge at all except it be geve him from heaven. BSB BSB: John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
28 TNT Ye youre selves are witnesses how that I sayde: I am not Christ but am sent before him. BSB BSB: You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.’
29 TNT He that hath the bryde is the brydegrome. But the frende of the brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him reioyseth greately of the brydgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled. BSB BSB: The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
30 TNT He must increace: and I muste decreace. BSB BSB: He must increase; I must decrease.
31 TNT He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of the erth is of the erth and speaketh of the erth. He that cometh from heaven is above all BSB BSB: The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.
32 TNT and what he hath sene and hearde: that he testifieth: but no man receaveth his testimonye. BSB BSB: He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
33 TNT How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his seale that God is true. BSB BSB: Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.
34 TNT For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure. BSB BSB: For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
35 TNT The father loveth the sonne and hath geven all thinges into his honde. BSB BSB: The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
36 TNT He that beleveth on the sonne hath everlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the sonne shall not se lyfe but the wrathe of God abydeth on him. BSB BSB: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”