5. Yeshua answered, “Amen, amen I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. Do not be surprised that I said to you, ‘You all must be born from above.’
8. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
9. “How can these things happen?” Nicodemus said.
10. Yeshua answered him, “You’re a teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things?
11. Amen, amen I tell you, We speak about what We know and testify about what We have seen. Yet you all do not receive Our testimony!
12. If you do not believe the earthly things I told you, how will you believe when I tell you about heavenly things?
13. No one has gone up into heaven except the One who came down from heaven—the Son of Man.
14. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15. so that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life!
16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
18. The one who believes in Him is not condemned; but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not put his trust in the name of the one and only Ben-Elohim.
19. “Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness instead of the light, because their deeds were evil.