And Nicodemus answered and said unto him: how can these things be?
¶ Then said Mary unto the angel: How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Iesus answered and said unto him: Art thou a master in Israhell, and knowest not these things?
¶ Nicodemus said unto him: how can a man be born, when he is old? can he enter into his mother's body and be born again?
The wind bloweth where he listeth, and thou hearest his sound: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every man that is born of the spirit.
¶ The jewes strove among themselves saying: How can this fellow give us his flesh to eat?
Many of his disciples, when they had heard this, said: this is an hard saying. Who can abide the hearing of it?