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There was a man from the Pharisees^(a) named Nicodemus,^(b) a ruler^(c) of the Jews.

This man came to Him at night and said, "Rabbi,^(d) we know that You have come from God^(e) as a teacher,^(f) for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him."^(g)

Jesus replied, "I assure you: Unless someone is born again, ^[a](h) he cannot see the kingdom of God." ⁽ⁱ⁾

"But how can anyone be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked Him. "Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born?"

Jesus answered, "I assure you: Unless someone is born^(j) of water and the Spirit, ^[b](k) he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Whatever is born of the flesh^(l) is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit^(m) is spirit.

Do not be amazed that I told you that you^[c] must be born⁽ⁿ⁾ again.

The wind^[d] blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going.^(o) So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." ^(p)

"How can these things be?" asked Nicodemus.

"Are you a teacher^[e] of Israel and don't know these things?" Jesus replied.

"I assure you:^(q) We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you^[f] do not accept Our testimony.^[g]

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

No one has ascended^(r) into heaven^(s) except the One who descended from heaven^(t)—the Son of Man. ^[h](u)

Just as Moses^(v) lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(w) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

so that everyone who believes in Him will^[i] have eternal life. ^(x)

"For God loved^(y) the world in this way:^[j] He gave His One and Only^(z) Son,^(aa) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. ^(ab)

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn^(ac) the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,^(ad) because he has not believed in the name^(ae) of the One and Only Son^(af) of God.

"This, then, is the judgment: The light^(ag) has come into the world,^(ah) and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates^(ai) the light and avoids it,^[k] so that his deeds^(aj) may not be exposed.

But anyone who lives by^[l] the truth comes to the light, so that his works^(ak) may be shown to be accomplished by God." ^[m]