He called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.