Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.

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

Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God.

Wonder not that I said to you, you must all be born again,

You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.

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

and asked them, saying: Is this your son, who, you say, was born blind? How, then, does he now see?

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

Since the beginning it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one who had been born blind.

They answered and said to him: You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow, be cause her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the pain, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Then Pilate said to him: You are a king, then? Jesus answered; You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I born, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might testify to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears my voice.