John 3:1-15 - A Meeting With Nicodemus

¹ Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews. ² This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

³ Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

⁴ 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?"

⁵ Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God. ⁶ Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual. ⁷ Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above. ⁸ The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

⁹ Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet ignorant of this? ¹¹ I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony. ¹² If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell? ¹³ Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven. ¹⁴ And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."