Ah, should this be at last The long-expected Christ! I see him there Sitting alone, deep-buried in his thought, As if the weight of all the world were resting Upon him, and thus bowed him down.

O Rabbi, We know thou art a Teacher come from God, For no man can perform the miracles Thou dost perform, except the Lord be with him.
Thou art a Prophet, sent here to proclaim The Kingdom of the Lord.

Behold in me A Ruler of the Jews, who long have waited The coming of that kingdom.

Tell me of it.
CHRISTUS.
Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot Behold the Kingdom of God! NICODEMUS.
Be born again?
How can a man be born when he is old?
Say, can he enter for a second time Into his mother's womb, and so be born?
CHRISTUS.
Verily I say unto thee, except A man be born of water and the spirit, He cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
For that which of the flesh is born, is flesh; And that which of the spirit is born, is spirit.
NICODEMUS.
We Israelites from the Primeval Man Adam Ahelion derive our bodies; Our souls are breathings of the Holy Ghost.
No more than this we know, or need to know.
CHRISTUS.
Then marvel not, that I said unto thee Ye must be born again.
NICODEMUS.
The mystery Of birth and death we cannot comprehend.
CHRISTUS.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear The sound thereof, but know not whence it cometh, Nor whither it goeth.

So is every one Born of the spirit! NICODEMUS, aside.
How can these things be?
He seems to speak of some vague realm of shadows, Some unsubstantial kingdom of the air! It is not this the Jews are waiting for, Nor can this be the Christ, the Son of David, Who shall deliver us! CHRISTUS.
Art thou a master Of Israel, and knowest not these things?
We speak that we do know, and testify That we have seen, and ye will not receive Our witness.