Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again."

"Sir," the woman said, "you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water?

It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?"

Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.

Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"

For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.

Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.