1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;
2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, |Rabbi, we know that You have come from God [as] a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.|
3 Jesus answered and said to him, |Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.|
4 Nicodemus said to Him, |How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?|
5 Jesus answered, |Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 |That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 |Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
8 |The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.|
9 Nicodemus said to Him, |How can these things be?|
10 Jesus answered and said to him, |Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?
11 |Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12 |If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 |No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
14 |As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
16 |For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17 |For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 |He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 |This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20 |For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 |But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.|
