John 3 : 1-17

 

1: One of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish Council,

2: came to Jesus by night. “Rabbi” he said, “we know that you are a teacher sent by God; no one could perform these signs of yours unless God were with him.”

3: Jesus answered “In very truth I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he has been born again.”

4: “But how can someone be born again if he is old?” asked Nicodemus. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

5: Jesus answered “In very truth I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born from water and Spirit”

6: “Flesh can give birth only to flesh; it is Spirit that gives birth to Spirit.”

7: “You ought not to be astonished when I say, “You must all be born again.”
8: “The wind blows where it wills; you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born from the Spirit.”

9: “How is this possible?” asked Nicodemus.

10: “You a teacher of Israel and ignorant of such things!” said Jesus.

11: “In very truth I tell you, we speak of what we know, and testify to what we have seen, and yet you all reject our testimony.”

12: “If you do not believe me when I talk to you about earthly things, how are you to believe if I should talk about the things of heaven?”

13: ‘No one has gone up into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

14: ‘Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,”

15: ‘in order that everyone who has faith may in Him have eternal life.
16: ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that everyone who has faith in Him may not perish but have eternal life.’

17: ‘It was not to judge the world that God sent His Son into the world, but that through Him the world might be saved.’