Jesus and Nicodemus

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus,
a member of the Jewish ruling council.
He came to Jesus at night and said,
"Rabbi, we know You are a teacher who has come from God. 
For no one could perform the miraculous signs You are doing
if God were not with him."

In reply Jesus declared,
"I tell you the truth,
no one can see the kingdom of God
unless he is born again."

"How can a man be born when he is old?"
Nicodemus asked. 
"Surely he cannot enter a second time
into his mother's womb to be born!"

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth,
no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh give birth to flesh,
but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
 
. . . Light has come into the world,
but men loved darkness instead of Light
because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the Light,
and will not come into the Light
for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the Light,
so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done
has been done through God."

(John 3:1-6,19-21)