Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, He who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him].

Therefore Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I should testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.

Therefore Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and from Myself I do nothing; but just as My Father taught Me, these things I speak.

And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, because I always do the things pleasing to Him."

I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father."

For I have not spoken on My own [authority]; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

Behold I have made him a testimony among the Gentiles, a prince and commander to the Gentiles.

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son, and [the one] to whom the Son wills to reveal [Him].

And turning to His disciples He said, "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and [the one] to whom the Son wills to reveal [Him]."

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have gazed upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life--

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, in order that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

This is He who came through water and blood--Jesus Christ, not only by the water, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is He who witnesses, because the Spirit is the truth.

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He that believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning His Son.

He that has the Son has life; he that does not have the Son of God does not have life.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, 'These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

"If I testify of Myself, My testimony is not valid.

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

You search the Scriptures, because you think [that] in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

But even though He had done so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him,

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?"

Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

O Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

I have stretched forth My hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you] who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

and saw Him saying to me, 'Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your witness about Me.'

And having appointed for him a day, many came to him at his house, to whom he was explaining and solemnly testifying to the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.

And being in disagreement with one another, they went away after Paul had said one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

For the hearts of this people has become dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and they should hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn back, so that I should heal them."'

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.