002:018 So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?" 002:019 "Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it." 002:020 "It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?" 002:021 But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body. 002:022 When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them. 002:023 Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the miracles He performed. 002:024 But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew them all, 002:025 and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man, for He of Himself knew what was in the man. 003:001 Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus-- a ruler among the Jews. 003:002 He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him. 003:003 "In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God." 003:004 "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?" 003:005 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 003:006 Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit. 003:007 Do not be astonished at my telling you, `You must all be born anew.' 003:008 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." 003:009 "How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus. 003:010 "Are you," replied Jesus, "`the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things? 003:011 In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our testimony. 003:012 If I have told you earthly things and none of you believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven? 003:013 There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven. 003:014 And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 003:015 in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."