John 3:1-15 - A Meeting With Nicodemus

¹ Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews. ² This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

³ "In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

⁴ "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

⁵ "I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.' ⁸ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

⁹ "How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

¹⁰ "Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus. ¹¹ "Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony. ¹² If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things? ¹³ There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself. ¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, ¹⁵ in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.