John 3:2-16

²And he came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know, that thou art come from God a master or for of God thou hast come a master; for no man may do these signs, that thou doest, but God be with him.

³Jesus answered, and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, but a man be born again, he may not see the kingdom of God.

⁴Nicodemus said to him, How may a man be born, when he is old? whether he may enter again into his mother’s womb, and be born again?

⁵Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to thee, but a man be born again of water, and of the Holy Ghost, he may not enter into the kingdom of God.

⁶That that is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that that is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

⁷Wonder thou not, for I said to thee, It behooveth you to be born again.

⁸The Spirit breatheth where he will, and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not, from whence he cometh, nor whither he goeth; so is each man that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered, and said to him, How may these things be done?

¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to him, Thou art a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹Truly, truly, I say to thee, for we speak that that we know, and we witness that that we have seen, and ye take not our witnessing.

¹²If I have said to you earthly things, and ye believe not, how if I say to you heavenly things, shall ye believe?

¹³And no man ascendeth or goeth up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, man’s Son that is in heaven or the Son of man which is in heaven.

¹⁴And as Moses areared or reared up a serpent in desert, so it behooveth man’s Son to be raised up,

¹⁵that each man that believeth in him, perish not, but have everlasting life.

¹⁶For God loved so the world or Forsooth God so loved the world, that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.