⁴ Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” ⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born ^(A)of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(A)I will come to you.

¹² And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! ^(A)The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more.

Then he took hold of his own clothes ^(B)and tore them in two pieces.