Jesus

Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K’far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.

It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y’hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;

and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.” )

So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?”

Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

The Judeans said, “It took years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”

But the “temple” he had spoken of was his body.

Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.

Now while Yeshua was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach festival, there were many people who “believed in his name” when they saw the miracles he performed.

But he did not commit himself to them, for he knew what people are like —

that is, he didn’t need anyone to inform him about a person, because he knew what was in the person’s heart.

This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him.”

“Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time?”

Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above!

Nakdimon replied, “How can this happen?”

Yeshua answered him, “You hold the office of teacher in Isra’el, and you don’t know this?

Yes, indeed! I tell you that what we speak about, we know; and what we give evidence of, we have seen; but you people don’t accept our evidence!

If you people don’t believe me when I tell you about the things of the world, how will you believe me when I tell you about the things of heaven?

No one has gone up into heaven; there is only the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.

Just as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life.