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1 There was a man of the pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Iewes. 2 The same came to Iesus by night, & said vnto him: Rabbi, we knowe that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man coulde do these miracles that thou doest, except God were with him. 3 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne agayne, he can not see the kyngdome of God. 4 Nicodemus sayth vnto hym: Howe can a man be borne when he is olde? can he enter into his mothers wombe, and be borne agayne? 5 Iesus aunswered: Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, except a man be borne of water and of the spirite, he can not enter into the kyngdome of God. 6 That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite. 7 Maruayle not thou that I sayde to thee, ye must be borne agayne. 8 The wynde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sounde therof: but canst not tell whence it commeth, and whither it goeth. So is euery one that is borne of the spirite. 9 Nicodemus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: howe can these thynges be? 10 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Art thou a maister in Israel, and knowest not thesethynges? 11 Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto thee, we speake that we do knowe, & testifie that we haue seene: and ye receaue not our witnesse. 12 If I haue tolde you earthly thynges, and ye beleue not: howe shall ye beleue, yf I tell you of heauenly thynges? 13 And no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that came downe from heauen, euen the sonne of man which is in heauen. 14 And as Moyses lyft vp the serpent in the wyldernesse: euen so must the sonne of man be lyft vp: 15 That whosoeuer beleueth in hym, perishe not, but haue eternall lyfe. 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe. 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through hym myght be saued. He that beleueth on hym, is not condempned: John 3:1-17, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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