Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Ye shall seek me, and shall not find {me}: and where I am, {thither} ye cannot come.

Then said {some} of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?

Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard {this}, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know {them}, because they are spiritually discerned.

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us {his} flesh to eat?

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.