Jesus and Nicodemus

3 There was a man from the Pharisees^(A) named Nicodemus,^(B) a ruler^(C) of the Jews. ² This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi,^(D) we know that You have come from God^(E) as a teacher,^(F) for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”^(G)

³ Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again,^[a](H) he cannot see the kingdom of God.”^(I)

⁴ “But 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?”

⁵ Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born^(J) of water and the Spirit,^[b](K) he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ Whatever is born of the flesh^(L) is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit^(M) is spirit. ⁷ Do not be amazed that I told you that you^[c] must be born^(N) again. ⁸ The wind^[d] blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.^(O) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”^(P)

⁹ “How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus^(A)—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,