Whoever Believes

These verses form a transition, they are transitional from Jesus' confrontation with the Jews concerning his actions in cleansing the temple, to His personal and rather confrontational meeting with one of the leading members of the Sanhedrin. That is chapter 3. We usually think of chapter three as the message about being born again, and that is true, but it comes in the context of Jesus talking to one of the members of the Sanhedrin, the governing council of Israel, the highest religious and political authority in the land.