Jesus rebukes Nicodemus’ misunderstanding by telling him that the way to life is through death. Nicodemus should have recognized that Adam was born of the “womb” of the earth. After his sin, Adam was told that he would return to the womb of the earth there to await a “new birth;” his redemption would come through resurrection. Job likewise spoke of the womb of the earth. When God’s judgments fell so severely upon him, he confessed that he came naked into the world from the womb of his mother, and