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John 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel Of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible . NICODEMUS The first part of the chapter begins with in Jesus as the son of God. Jesus is shown here already proclaiming himself the Messiah and laying out aspects of Christian Theology , in contrast to Mark for instance, where Jesus seems to try to keep the fact of his divinity secret until his final trip to Jerusalem . Nicodemus appears here, in chapter 7:50 and is listed in John 19:39 , and only John, as helping Joseph Of Arimathea to bury Jesus. JESUS BAPTIZES In the second part of the chapter John contrasts Jesus's talk of being born again with a scene of Jesus baptizing. Jesus goes into Judea with his disciples and Baptize s. John The Baptist is also baptizing people nearby, at Aenon . John's disciples tell John that Jesus is also baptizing people, more than John it seems. John replies that "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.' The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater; I must become less." He finishes by saying "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." This passage is meant to show John's acceptance of Jesus's superiority as well as a further emphasis on belief in him as the path to eternal life/heaven. John was trying to show to his presumably Jewish audience that John himself knew that Jesus was the Messiah and that baptism into Christianity, not John's group, is the true path to God. There is a group still surviving today, the Mandaeans , who claim John as the greatest prophet. Verses 31-36 are largely a restatement of materiel in the first half. This had led scholars to speculate that this part, and much else in John such as materiel in chapter 6, 14, 16 and chapter 21 was the work of a redactor who added sections to the original writing to perhaps make it less radical and include material the person thought was left out of the original account. SEE ALSO REFERENCES Brown, Raymond E. ''An Introduction to the New Testament'' Doubleday 1997 ISBN 0385247672 John 3 NIV John 3 KJV |
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