Teaches
Nicodemus about Second Birth.
Judea
Date: AD 27
Eighth Event
John 3:1 - 21
John 3:1
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 The
same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that
thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles
that thou doest, except God be with him.
3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus
saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter
the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God.
6 That
which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit.
7
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth:
so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus
answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus
answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of
Israel, and knowest not these things?
11 Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that
we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If
I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye
believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And
no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of man be lifted up:
15
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.
18
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not
is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God.
19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For
every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the
light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But
he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made
manifest, that they are wrought in God.
