¹Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish council. ²He came to Jesus one night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that God has sent you as a teacher. No one can perform the miracles you perform unless God is with him.”

³Jesus replied to Nicodemus, “I can guarantee this truth: No one can see God’s kingdom without being born from above.”^a

⁴Nicodemus asked him, “How can anyone be born when he’s an old man? He can’t go back inside his mother a second time to be born, can he?”

⁵Jesus answered Nicodemus, “I can guarantee this truth: No one can enter God’s kingdom without being born of water and the Spirit. ⁶Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual. ⁷Don’t be surprised when I tell you that all of you must be born from above. ⁸The wind^bblows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where the wind comes from or where it’s going. That’s the way it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus replied, “How can that be?”

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John 3:3: Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Footnotes

a 3:3 Or “born again.”
b 3:8 The Greek word for wind is the same as the Greek word for Spirit.