1 There was a man named Nicodemus who was one of the Pharisees and an important Jewish leader.
2 One night Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we know you are a teacher sent from God, because no one can do the miracles you do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s kingdom.”
4 Nicodemus said, “But if a person is already old, how can he be born again? He cannot enter his mother’s womb again. So how can a person be born a second time?”
5 But Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born from water and the Spirit, you cannot enter God’s kingdom.
6 Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.
7 Don’t be surprised when I tell you, ‘You must all be born again.’