aid to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a
man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

3:4. Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can
he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again?

3:5. Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born
again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God.

Unless a man be born again, etc... By these words our Saviour hath
declared the necessity of baptism; and by the word water it is evident
that the application of it is necessary with the words. Matt. 28. 19.

3:6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.

3:7. Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again.

3:8. The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice: but
thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every one
that is born of the Spirit.

3:9. Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be done?

3:10. Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and
knowest not these things?

3:11. Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we
testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.

3:12. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how
will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?

3:13. And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from
heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

3:14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son
of man be lifted up:

3:15. That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life
everlasting.

3:16. For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that
whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life
everlasting.

3:17. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but
that the world may be saved by him.

3:18. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not
believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the
only begotten Son of God.

Is not judged... He that believeth, viz., by a faith working through
charity, is not judged, that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate
unbeliever is judged, that is, condemned already, by retrenching himself
from the society of Christ and his church.

3:19. And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world
and men loved darkness rather than the ligh