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Nicodemus says to Him, “How is a person able to be born while being an old-man? He is not able to enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born, is he?” Jesus responded, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water[a] and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. The thing having been born of the flesh is flesh, and the thing having been born of the Spirit is spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:5 Jesus may be detailing the idea of being born again in v 3, in which case the water refers to the visible aspect of it, that is, baptism; or, Jesus may explain His meaning by the illustration in v 6, water referring to ‘of the flesh’, that is, human birth.

“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.(A) Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit.(B)

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  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit