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Now there was a man from the Pharisees ,
a leader of the Jews ,
whose name was Nicodemus .
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He came to Jesus at night and said to him , “
Rabbi ,
we know that you have come from God as a teacher ,
for no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him .”
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Jesus replied to him ,“
Truly ,
truly I tell you ,
unless a person is born from abovehe cannot see the kingdom of God .”
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Nicodemus said to him , “
How can a person be born when he is old ?
He can '
t go back into his mother '
s womb a second time and be born ,
can he ?”
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Jesus answered ,“
Truly ,
truly I tell you ,
unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God .
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Whatis born of the flesh is flesh ,
and what is born of the Spirit is spirit .
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Don '
t be astonished that I said to you , ‘
All of youmust be born from above .’
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The windblows where it wants to .
You hear its sound ,
but you don '
t know where it comes from or where it is going .
That '
s the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit .”
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Nicodemus said to him , “
How can that be ?”
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Jesus answered him ,“
You '
re the teacher of Israel ,
and you can '
t understand this ?
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Truly ,
truly I tell you ,
we know what we '
re talking about ,
and we testify about what we '
ve seen .
Yet you peopledo not accept our testimony .
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If I have told you peopleabout earthly things and you do not believe ,
how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things ?
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No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven ,
the Son of Man who is in heaven .
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Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness ,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up ,
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so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life .
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For this is how God loved the world :
He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life .
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For God sent the Son into the world ,
not to condemn the world ,
but that the world might be saved through him .
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Whoever believes in him is not condemned ,
but whoever does not believe has already been condemned ,
because he has not believed in the name of God '
s unique Son .
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And this is the basis for judgment :
The light has come into the world ,
but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil .
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For everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light ,
so that his actions may not be exposed .
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But whoever does what is true comes to the light ,
so that all may seethat his actions have been done in God .”