⁴ “Born again!” exclaimed Nicodemus. “What do you mean? How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

⁵ Jesus replied, “What I am telling you so earnestly is this: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit,^[a] he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. ⁶ Men can only reproduce human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven;