Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
When they heard this, many of His disciples said, “This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?”
For to those who are perishing, the preaching of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.