Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”

Nathanael replied, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”

So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.