Looking Closer

As I look more at this passage in John 3 the more I find compelling parallels with Jesus' words to Nicodemus earlier in the chapter. Here is what I am finding:

He who comes from above is above all, ...He who comes from heaven is above all. (verse 31)	No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. (verse 13)
he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. (verse 31)	If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? (verse 12)
What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. (verse 32)	Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. (verse 11)
He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true. (verse 33)	Whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged.... (verse 15-18) He who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. (verse 21)
He whom God has sent speaks the words of God. (verse 34)	[Nicodemus] came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him." (verse 2) For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. (verse 17) The Light has come into the world.... (verse 19)
He gives the Spirit without measure. (verse 34)	The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. (verse 8)
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. (verse 35)	For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. (verse 16-17)
He who believes in the Son has eternal life... (verse 36)	...Whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. ...Whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (verse 15-16)
He who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. (verse 36)	...He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. (verse 18-19)

I don't believe that these connections are just incidental. In my view it seems that the writer John is recapping the main points that he wants to get across that were introduced earlier. The first time they were brought out it was in the context of Jesus dialogging with Nicodemus and the second time it is John commenting on the attitude of John the Baptist in relation to his disciples and Jesus.