¹⁴ And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(A)unless one is born ^[a]again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(B)unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is ^(C)flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

^5 (A)for John truly baptized with water, ^(B)but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ⁶ Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷ And He said to them, ^(C)“It is not for you to ^(D)know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. ^8 (E)But you shall receive power ^(F)when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and ^(G)you shall be ^[a]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and ^(H)Samaria, and to the ^(I)end of the earth.”

⁶ Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, ^(A)“Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you ^(B)do not understand now, ^(C)but you will know after this.”

⁸ Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, ^(D)“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

^3 (A)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in ^(B)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and ^(C)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

⁴ But God, ^(D)who is rich in mercy, because of His ^(E)great love with which He loved us, ^5 (F)even when we were dead in trespasses, ^(G)made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth ^(A)the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, ^[a]“Abba, Father!”

²⁷ For ^(A)as many of you as were baptized into Christ ^(B)have put on Christ. ^28 (C)There is neither Jew nor Greek, ^(D)there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all ^(E)one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And ^(F)if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s ^(G)seed, and ^(H)heirs according to the promise.

²² But the Scripture has confined ^(A)all under sin, ^(B)that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

²⁵ whom God set forth ^(A)as a ^[a]propitiation ^(B)by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over ^(C)the sins that were previously committed,