When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world:

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?"

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."