“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.