18 People who believe in God’s Son are not judged guilty. Those who do not believe have already been judged guilty, because they have not believed in God’s one and only Son.
19 They are judged by this fact: The Light has come into the world, but they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things.
20 All who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light, because it will show all the evil things they do.
21 But those who follow the true way come to the light, and it shows that the things they do were done through God.”
22 After this, Jesus and his followers went into the area of Judea, where he stayed with his followers and baptized people.
23 John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were going there to be baptized.
24 (This was before John was put into prison.)