Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again,[a](A) he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(B)

“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(C) of water and the Spirit,[b](D) he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Whatever is born of the flesh(E) is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit(F) is spirit. Do not be amazed that I told you that you[c] must be born(G) again.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:3 The same Gk word can mean again or from above (also in v. 7).
  2. John 3:5 Or spirit, or wind; the Gk word pneuma can mean wind, spirit, or Spirit, each of which occurs in this context.
  3. John 3:7 The pronoun is pl in Gk.

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