You Must Be Born Again — John 3:1-8
John 3:1-8 · Berean Standard Bible
Nicodemus, a respected Pharisee, comes to Jesus at night and hears a startling claim: 'No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.' When Nicodemus asks how a grown man can be born a second time, Jesus explains a spiritual birth — being 'born of water and the Spirit' — as different from physical birth as wind you cannot control. This conversation is where the phrase 'born again' comes from and what Jesus meant by it.
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
4“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
7Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
8The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
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