Jesus to Nicodemus on Being Born Again

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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3Now in that location was a Pharisee, a homo named Nicodemus^(A) who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.^{(B) 2}He came to Jesus at dark and said, "Rabbi,^(C) we know^(D) that yous are a teacher who has come from God. For no 1 could perform the signs^(East) you are doing if God were not with him."^(F)

³Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell y'all, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born once more.^[a]"^(Yard)

⁴"How can someone be born when they are old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely they cannot enter a second fourth dimension into their mother's womb to be born!"

⁵Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell y'all, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.^{(H) 6}Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[b] gives nascence to spirit.^{(I) 7}Y'all should not be surprised at my saying, 'You^[c] must exist born again.' ⁸The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, only you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. Then information technology is with everyone born of the Spirit."^{[d] (J)}

^ix"How tin can this be?"^(K) Nicodemus asked.

^x"You lot are State of israel'due south teacher,"^(L) said Jesus, "and do you non empathize these things? ¹¹Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,^(M) and nosotros show to what nosotros have seen, but nonetheless you people do not take our testimony.^{(N) 12}I have spoken to you lot of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³No one has ever gone into heaven^(O) except the i who came from heaven^(P)—the Son of Man.^{[e] (Q) xiv}Only as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,^(R) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^{[f] (S) 15}that everyone who believes^(T) may take eternal life in him."^{[g] (U)}

¹⁶For God so loved^(Five) the earth that he gave^(West) his one and but Son,^(X) that whoever believes^(Y) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^{(Z) 17}For God did not ship his Son into the world^(AA) to condemn the world, only to salvage the world through him.^{(AB) 18}Whoever believes in him is not condemned,^(AC) only whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God'southward i and only Son.^{(Advertizement) 19}This is the verdict: Calorie-free^(AE) has come up into the globe, only people loved darkness instead of lite because their deeds were evil.^{(AF) twenty}Everyone who does evil hates the low-cal, and volition not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.^{(AG) 21}But whoever lives past the truth comes into the light, and then that it may be seen apparently that what they have washed has been done in the sight of God.

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Footnotes

1. John 3:3 The Greek for over again also ways from above; as well in poetry seven.
2. John iii:six Or but spirit
3. John 3:vii The Greek is plural.
4. John 3:8 The Greek for Spirit is the same equally that for air current.
5. John iii:xiii Some manuscripts Man, who is in heaven
6. John 3:14 The Greek for lifted upwards also means exalted.
7. John 3:fifteen Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.

Cross references

1. John 3:1 : Jn 7:50; nineteen:39
2. John 3:i : Lk 23:xiii
3. John 3:two : Due south Mt 23:vii
4. John 3:2 : ver eleven
5. John 3:2 : Due south Jn 2:11
6. John iii:2 : Jn 10:38; 14:10, 11; Ac two:22; 10:38
7. John three:three : S Mt 3:2; South Jn 1:xiii
8. John 3:v : S Ac 22:16; Tit 3:5
9. John iii:vi : S Jn 1:13; 1Co xv:50
10. John 3:8 : 1Co 2:14-sixteen
11. John 3:nine : Jn half-dozen:52, 60
12. John three:10 : Lk 2:46
13. John three:11 : Jn 1:eighteen; seven:sixteen, 17
14. John three:11 : ver 32
15. John 3:thirteen : Pr thirty:four; Ac 2:34; Eph iv:viii-10
16. John 3:xiii : ver 31; Jn 6:38, 42; Heb 4:14; 9:24
17. John 3:13 : S Mt 8:20
18. John 3:14 : Nu 21:8, 9
19. John 3:fourteen : S Jn 12:32
20. John 3:fifteen : ver sixteen, 36; Ge 15:vi; Nu xiv:11; Mt 27:42; Mk i:fifteen; Jn 1:7, 12; 2:23; 5:24; 7:38; 20:29; Ac 13:39; 16:31; Ro three:22; 10:9, 10; 1Jn 5:ane, v, 10
21. John 3:15 : ver xvi, 36; S Mt 25:46; Jn 20:31
22. John 3:sixteen : Ro 5:viii; Eph 2:4; 1Jn 4:nine, 10
23. John 3:xvi : Isa 9:six; Ro viii:32
24. John three:sixteen : Ge 22:12; Jn 1:18
25. John iii:16 : S ver 15
26. John 3:16 : ver 36; Jn 6:29, 40; 11:25, 26
27. John 3:17 : Jn 6:29, 57; 10:36; 11:42; 17:8, 21; 20:21
28. John 3:17 : Isa 53:11; Southward Mt 1:21; S Lk 2:11; 19:x; Jn 1:29; 12:47; Due south Ro xi:fourteen; 1Ti 1:15; two:v, half dozen; 1Jn 2:ii; iii:five
29. John 3:18 : Jn five:24
30. John iii:18 : Jn one:18; 1Jn 4:nine
31. John three:19 : Southward Jn 1:4
32. John three:xix : Ps 52:3; Jn 7:7
33. John 3:twenty : Eph v:11, xiii

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