¹Sas iek manush anda le Farizeanuria kai busholas Nicodemus, iek baro le Zhidovongo.

¹And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

²Ai avilo andek e riate ka Jesus ai phendia leske, "Xazhainona, ame zhanas ke O Del tradia tu te sichares amen; ke khonik nashti kerel kadala mirakluria kai keres, te nai O Del kodolesa."

²this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come — a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.`

³O Jesus dia les atweto ai phendia leske, "Chachimasa, chachimasa, phenav tuke, khonik nashti dikhela o rhaio le Devlesko te na kerdiola aver data."

³Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;`

⁴O Nicodemus phendia leske, "Sar dashtilpe iek manush te kerdiol aver data kana si phuro? Sai mai zhal palpale ando ji peska dako, ai te kerdiol aver data?"

⁴Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?`

⁵O Jesus phendia, "Chachimasa, chachimasa, phenav tuke, khonik nashti zhal ando rhaio le Devlesko te na kerdiola anda pai ai anda Swunto Duxo.

⁵Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

⁶So kerdilo katar o stato, stato si; ai so kerdilo katar O Swunto Duxo, Swunto Duxo si.

⁶that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Te na chudis tu kai phendem tuke, ke trobul te kerdion aver data.

⁷`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

⁸E barval phurdel kai woi mangel, ai ashunes o shumo, numa tu chi zhanes katar avel, ai chi kai zhal; sakadia si swako manush kai kerdilo anda Swunto Duxo."

⁸the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.`

⁹O Nicodemus phendia leske, "Sar kadia diela sai kerdiol?"

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

¹⁰O Jesus dia les atweto ai phendia leske, "Tu san ek gazda anda Israel, ai chi zhanes kadala dieli?

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel — and these things thou dost not know!

¹¹Chachimasa, chachimasa, phenav tuke, ame mothas so zhanas, ai sam marturia anda so dikhliam, numa tume chi primin amari vorba.

¹¹`Verily, verily, I say to thee — What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

¹²Tume chi pachan man kana phenav tumenge pal dieli la phuviake, sar pachan tume kana phenava tumenge pal dieli le rhaioske?

¹²if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

¹³Khonik chi anklisto ando rhaio, ke ferdi kodo kai hulisto tele anda rhaio, O Shav le Manushesko kai si ando rhaio."

¹³and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down — the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

¹⁴Ai sar o Moses vazdia o sap ando pusta, sa kadia trobul O Shav le Manushesko te avel vazdino.

¹⁴`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

¹⁵Kashke kon godi kai pachalpe ande leste te na xaiil, numa avel les o traio le rhaiosko.

¹⁵that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

¹⁶O Del drago sas e lumia, ai wo tradia peske ieke shaves, kashke kon godi kai pachalpe ande leste te na xaiil, numa te avel les o traio kai chi mai getolpe.

¹⁶for God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

¹⁷Ke O Del chi tradia peske shaves ande lumia te del kris la lumia, numa e lumia te sai avel skepime lestar.

¹⁷For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

¹⁸Kodo kai pachalpe ande leste, nai kris pe leste; numa kodo kai chi pachalpe, e kris vunzhe si pe leste, ke chhi pachaiepe ando anav le ieke Devlesko Shav.

¹⁸he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹Katar avel e kris, si ke e vediara avili ande lumia, ai le manush alosarde o tuniariko ke sar e vediara, ke so kerde sas nasul.

¹⁹`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

²⁰Ke kon godi kerel o nasulimos nai leske drago e vediara, ai chi avel kai vediara, ke chi mangel te dichol leske bezexa.

²⁰for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

²¹Numa kodo kai kerel so si vorta avel kai vediara, ke lesko lashimos sai dichol, ke kerdiol lo pala Del.

²¹but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`

²²Pala kodia O Jesus ai peske disipluria avile ando them kai busholas Judea; ai kotse beshlo lensa, ai bolelas.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

²³Ai vi o Iovano bolelas ando Enon pasha Salim, ke sas kotse but pai, ai avenas kotse le manush te bolin.

²³and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized —

²⁴Ke o Iovano nas inker thodino ande temnitsa.

²⁴for John was not yet cast into the prison —

²⁵Antunchi uni andal disipluria le Iovanoske ai ek Zhidovo marenas mui pa vuzhimos.

²⁵there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,

²⁶Ai avile ka Iovano, ai phende leske, " Xazhainona, kodo kai sas tusa inchal o Jordan, pa kudo kai dian amenge duma? Eta, wo bolel, ai savorhe zhan leste!"

²⁶and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.`

²⁷O Iovano phendia, "Khonik nashti avel les vari so te na avela leske dino katar O Del.

²⁷John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

²⁸Tume san murhe marturia, ke phendem, "Chi sim o Kristo, numa sim tradino angla leste."

²⁸ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

²⁹Kodo kai si les e rhomni si o ternaxar; numa o vortako le ternaxaresko, kai beshel pasha leste ai ashunel les, raduilas but pala glaso le ternaxaresko: me sim pherdo kadia raduimasko.

²⁹he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

³⁰Wo musai bariol, ai me musai teliuvav."

³⁰`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

³¹Kodo avel katar opral, si opral pe savorhe; kodo kai si la phuviako, la phuviako ashel, ai del duma sar te avino phuviako: kodo kai avel anda rhaio, si opral pa savorhe.

³¹he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

³²Wo phenel so dikhlia ai ashundia, numa khonik chi pachal leske vorbi.

³²`And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;

³³Savo kai premisardia so ashundia lestar, kodo preznail ke O Del si chacho.

³³he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;

³⁴Kodoles kai O Del tradia phenel le vorbi le Devleske; ke O Del chi del les O Swunto Duxo pe musura.

³⁴for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

³⁵O Dat drago le Shaves, ai thodia swako fielo ande leske vas.

³⁵the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

³⁶Kodo kai pachalpe ando Shav si les o traio kai chi mai getolpe: numa kodo kai chi pachalpe ando Shav chi dikhela o traio; numa e xoli le Devleski beshel pe leste.

³⁶he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.`