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.

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

So whether we are at home or away from home, our goal is to be pleasing to him.