Article July 5, 1975 Issue

The Beginning Is with God

SARAH SAVAGE

One night, under cover of darkness, a high-ranking citizen of Jerusalem came to the house where an itinerant teacher lodged. He wished to probe deeper into the new interpretation of life that the teacher, Christ Jesus, was expounding and demonstrating.

"Rabbi," he said, "we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." Jesus answered: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Accustomed to thinking of man in terms of flesh and blood, the visitor was completely mystified. "How can a man be born when he is old?" he asked. Jesus explained: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."^{John 3:2-4, 6;}

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