John 3:12-14

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¹²^(A) If you don't believe when I talk to you about things on earth, how can you possibly believe if I talk to you about things in heaven?

¹³^(B) No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there. ¹⁴^(C) And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.^[a]

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3.14 just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert: When the Lord punished the people of Israel by sending snakes to bite them, he told Moses to hold a metal snake up on a pole. Everyone who looked at the snake was cured of the snake bites (see Numbers 21.4-9).