Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans; this man came to Him [Yeshua] by night, and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from G-d {as} a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless G-d is with him."

Yeshua answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of G-d."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

Yeshua answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of G-d. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

Yeshua answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and you do not receive our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven, {even} the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life."

Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. And the people spoke against G-d and Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food."

And the L-RD sent venomous snakes among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the L-RD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the snakes from us."

And Moses interceded for the people. Then the L-RD said to Moses, "Make a snake and set it on a pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live."

And Moses made a snake of bronze and set it on a pole; and it came about, that if a snake bit any man, when he looked to the bronze snake, he lived.

So He [Yeshua] came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob's well was there. Yeshua therefore, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Yeshua said to her, "Give Me a drink." For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Judean, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Judeans have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Yeshua answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of G-d, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"

Yeshua answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

"Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."

"There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones who are in Messiah Yeshua. For in Messiah Yeshua the way of the Spirit of life freed you from the way of sin and of death.

"For what was impossible for the Torah to do, weak as it was through the flesh, G-d accomplished. Sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the ordinance of the Torah may be fulfilled in us - the ones walking not according to flesh but according to spirit."

"Behold, days are coming," declares the L-RD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the L-RD.

"But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the L-RD, "I will put My torah within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the L-RD,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the L-RD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

For the Torah, since it is a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

But in those {sacrifices} there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Wherefore entering the world He [Messiah] says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not wish, but a body You did prepare for Me; burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You were not well pleased with. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come. In a heading of a scroll it has been written concerning Me, to do your will, O G-d.'"

By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah once for all.