- Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,
- came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”
- Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
- Jesus answered, …What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit…
- Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”
- Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
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- For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
based on NET Bible