Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

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?"

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

When the two days were over, Jesus went on to Galilee,

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

But when the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me? I tell you, before a cock crows, you will disown me thrice over!

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

So Annas sent him over still bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

Pilate answered, "Do you take me for a Jew? Your own people and the high priests handed you over to me. What offense have you committed?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it were not given to you from above. So you are less guilty than the man who betrayed me to you."

Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.