The Saints Gospel 21

Born of Water and the Spirit

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Now there was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Him at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Amen, amen, I tell you: unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?” Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I tell you: unless someone is born from water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You all must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from and where it goes. So it is with everyone born from the Spirit.” Nicodemus answered Him, “How can these things happen?”

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do you not understand these things?

“Amen, amen, I tell you: we speak what we know and bear witness to what we have seen, and you all do not receive our testimony. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in Him. For God loved the world in this way: He gave the only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not judged; but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

“And this is the judgment: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness more than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices base things hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his deeds may not be exposed. But the one who does the truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be manifested, because they have been done in God.”

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Saints Translation · The Saints Gospel · a harmony of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts 1 · words of Christ in red · working draft awaiting specialist review.