who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John bore witness of him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'"

And John bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."

And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

And they asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.

When a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but as soon as she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child has been born into the world.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."