Nicodemus responded and said to him, ‘Please, how in the world can [dynatai] these things ever happen?!’ ” In response to Nicodemus’s apparently complete incomprehension, Jesus becomes very practical and earthy now. We will learn from Jesus’ present response, clearly, how the desperately needed New Birth happens in this world. The anthropological problem having been acutely raised in the earlier verses, we now come to the divine solution (pneumatology) by means of