1Now there was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.2This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one is able to do these signs that you do unless God is with him."3Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is begotten from above, that one cannot see the kingdom of God."4Nicodemus said to him, "How can a human be begotten when he is an old man? He cannot enter his mother's womb a second time and be begotten."5Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is begotten out from water and spirit, that one cannot enter the kingdom of God."6What is begotten out from the flesh is flesh, and what is begotten out from the spirit is spirit.7Do not be amazed that I said to you, "You must be begotten from above."8The spirit blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know whence it comes and where it goes; so is everyone who is begotten out from the spirit.9Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?"10Jesus answered and said to him, "You are the teacher of Israel, and these things you do not know?"11Truly, truly, I say to you that we speak what we know and testify to what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.12If I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I speak to you of heavenly things?13And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.15So that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.16For God so loved the world that he gave the unique son, in order that everyone who trusts in him should not perish but have eternal life.17God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because that person has not believed in the name of the unique Son of God.19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.20For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, lest their deeds be exposed.21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.