John 3:4-14

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,