John 3:4-14

⁴Nicodemus asked Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He can’t go back into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

⁵Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, that one can’t enter the Kingdom of God.

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

⁷Don’t marvel that I told you, ‘You must be born again.’

⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but can’t tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus asked Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰“Are you Israel’s teacher,” asked Jesus, “and yet you don’t understand these things?

¹¹Most assuredly, I tell you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

¹²If I have told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³No one has ever gone up into Heaven except the one who came from Heaven — the Son of Man.

¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,