3:1 有一個法利賽人，名叫尼哥底母，是猶太人的官。
3:2 這人夜裡來見耶穌，說：「拉比，我們知道你是由上帝那裡來作師傅的；因為你所行的神蹟，若沒有上帝同在，無人能行。」
3:3 耶穌回答說：「我實實在在地告訴你，人若不重生，就不能見上帝的國。」
3:4 尼哥底母說：「人已經老了，如何能重生呢？豈能再進母腹生出來嗎？」
3:5 耶穌說：「我實實在在地告訴你，人若不是從水和聖靈生的，就不能進上帝的國。
3:6 從肉身生的就是肉身；從靈生的就是靈。
3:7 我說：『你們必須重生』，你不要以為希奇。
3:8 風隨著意思吹，你聽見風的響聲，卻不曉得從哪裡來，往哪裡去；凡從聖靈生的，也是如此。」
3:9 尼哥底母問他說：「怎能有這事呢？」
3:10 耶穌回答說：「你是以色列人的先生，還不明白這事嗎？
3:11 我實實在在地告訴你，我們所說的是我們知道的；我們所見證的是我們見過的；你們卻不領受我們的見證。
3:12 我對你們說地上的事，你們尚且不信，若說天上的事，如何能信呢？
3:13 除了從天降下、仍舊在天的人子，沒有人升過天。
3:14 摩西在曠野怎樣舉蛇，人子也必照樣被舉起來，
3:15 叫一切信他的都得永生（或譯：叫一切信的人在他裡面得永生）。
3:16 「上帝愛世人，甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們，叫一切信他的，不致滅亡，反得永生。
3:17 因為上帝差他的兒子降世，不是要定世人的罪（或譯：審判世人；下同），乃是要叫世人因他得救。
3:18 信他的人，不被定罪；不信的人，罪已經定了，因為他不信上帝獨生子的名。
3:19 光來到世間，世人因自己的行為是惡的，不愛光，倒愛黑暗，定他們的罪就是在此。
3:20 凡作惡的便恨光，並不來就光，恐怕他的行為受責備。
3:21 但行真理的必來就光，要顯明他所行的是靠上帝而行。」
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.[a]”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[c] must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[d]
9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.[e] 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,[f] 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”[g]
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
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主耶穌和尼哥底母的對話，讓我們感受到重生的重要性！因為主耶穌清楚的說：「我實實在在地告訴你，人若不重生，就不能見上帝的國。」「「我實實在在地告訴你，人若不是從水和聖靈生的，就不能進上帝的國。」
也因此重生和聖靈有密切的關係，也唯有重生才有「信」！而有「信」人才可以的著永生！所以，信仰不是來自人的自覺或是領悟，而是要靠聖靈的重生與啟示，是出於上帝的恩典！
也因為這樣，要體驗聖靈的工作、肯定自己的得救，我們一定要來認識；有效的呼召 (https://kk1591.blogspot.com/2015/12/blog-post_22.html) ！也因此，我們要存感謝的心來感謝上帝讓我們得著救恩，享受這新生命所帶來的福分！
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