⁴ Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”

⁴² And they were saying, “^(A)Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(B)we know? How does He now say, ‘^(C)I have come down out of heaven’?”

⁶ But He was saying this only to ^(A)test him, for He Himself knew what He intended to do.

³⁸ For ^(A)I have come down from heaven, ^(B)not to do My own will, but ^(C)the will of Him who ^(D)sent Me. ³⁹ And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of ^(E)everything that He has given Me I will ^(F)lose nothing, but will ^(G)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who ^(H)sees the Son and ^(I)believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will ^(J)raise him up on the last day.”