John chapter 3 records the story of the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus who came by night. He was religious and well taught in the Bible but despite knowing much and commitment to the Jewish religion, Nicodemus had not even begun on the path heaven. Nicodemus had to be born again, as all of us must. He must be born of water and of the Spirit, as Ezekiel had written, washed from sin and given a new heart born of God.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie