Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 3:4 in context
John 3:1–7
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Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
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He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
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Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
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Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
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Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’
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