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THE MYSTERY OF THE SPIRIT REVEALED TO A MASTER IN ISRAEL
The conversation with Nicodemus
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There was one of the Pharisees called Nicodemus, a leading Jew,
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who came to Jesus by night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who comes from God; for no one could perform the signs that you do unless God were with him’.
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Jesus answered: ‘I tell you most solemnly, unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God’.
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Nicodemus said, ‘How can a grown man be born? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?’
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Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly, unless a man is born through water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God:
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what is born of the flesh is flesh; what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Do not be surprised when I say: You must be born from above.
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The wind blows wherever it pleases; you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. That is how it is with all who are born of the Spirit.’
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‘How can that be possible?’ asked Nicodemus.
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‘You, a teacher in Israel, and you do not know these things!’ replied Jesus.
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‘I tell you most solemnly, we speak only about what we know and witness only to what we have seen and yet you people reject our evidence.
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If you do not believe me when I speak about things in this world, how are you going to believe me when I speak to you about heavenly things?
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No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven; and the Son of Man must be lifted up
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as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
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so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.
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Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.
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For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.
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No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.
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On these grounds is sentence pronounced: that though the light has come into the world men have shown they prefer darkness to the light because their deeds were evil.
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And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed;
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but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light, so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God;’
John bears witness for the last time
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After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the Judaean countryside and stayed with them there and baptised.
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At the same time John was baptising at Aenon[*a] near Salim, where there was plenty of water, and people were going there to be baptised.
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This was before John had been put in prison.
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Now some of John’s disciples had opened a discussion with a Jew about purification,
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so they went to John and said, ‘Rabbi, the man who was with you on the far side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore witness, is baptising now; and everyone is going to him’.
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John replied: ‘A man can lay claim only to what is given him from heaven.
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‘You yourselves can bear me out: I said: I myself am not the Christ; I am the one who has been sent in front of him.
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‘The bride is only for the bridegroom; and yet the bridegroom’s friend, who stands there and listens, is glad when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This same joy I feel, and now it is complete.
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He must grow greater, I must grow smaller.
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He who comes from above is above all others; he who is born of the earth is earthly himself and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven
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bears witness to the things he has seen and heard, even if his testimony is not accepted;
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though all who do accept his testimony are attesting the truthfulness of God,
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since he whom God has sent speaks God’s own words: God gives him the Spirit without reserve.
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The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to him.
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Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life, but anyone who refuses to believe in the Son will never see life: the anger of God stays on him.’
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