This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.”
“How can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born? ”
Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
“Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
“The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
“Truly I tell you, we speak what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.
“If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
“Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
“This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent time with them and baptized.
John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,
So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing — and everyone is going to him.”
John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
“You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of him.’
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