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1 Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish council. 2 He came to Jesus one night and said to him, |Rabbi, we know that God has sent you as a teacher. No one can perform the miracles you perform unless God is with him.| 3 Jesus replied to Nicodemus, |I can guarantee this truth: No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.| 4 Nicodemus asked him, |How can anyone be born when he's an old man? He can't go back inside his mother a second time to be born, can he?| 5 Jesus answered Nicodemus, |I can guarantee this truth: No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual. John 3:1-6, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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