7. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘It is necessary for you to be born from above.’
8. The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9. Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can these things be?”
10. Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things?
11. Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!
12. If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13. And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14. And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up,
15. so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.”
16. For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.