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after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us--that thou dost these things?'

Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men ,

and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel--and these things thou dost not know!

`Verily, verily, I say to thee--What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,