Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

This was to fulfil what Jesus said when he declared how he was to die.