»How is all this possible?« asked Nicodemus.
»How can this be,« Mary replied, »seeing that I have no husband?«
»Are you,« replied Jesus, »`the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things?
»How is it possible,« Nicodemus asked, »for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?«
The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit.«
This led to an angry debate among the Jews. »How can this man,« they argued, »give us his flesh to eat?«
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, »This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?«
