John 3:2-4

Expanded Bible

² ·One night [or By night; ^Cperhaps with connotations that he could not “see” spiritually] Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, “·Teacher [^LRabbi], we know you are a teacher sent from God, because no one can do the ·miracles [^Lsigns; 2:11] you do unless God is with him.”

³ Jesus answered, “·I tell you the truth [^LTruly, truly I say to you], unless you are born ·again [or from above; ^Cthis may be a play on words, meaning both “again” and “from above”], you cannot ·be in [experience; ^Lsee] God’s kingdom.”

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, “But if a person is already old, how can he be born ·again [or from above; 3:3]? ·He cannot enter his mother’s womb again. So how can a person be born a second time [^LCan he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born]?”