What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

But when the appropriate time ¹  had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, ¹  while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent ¹  persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, ²  so it is now.

Today ¹  your Savior is born in the city ²  of David. ³  He is Christ ⁴  the Lord.

Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all ¹  be born from above.’ ² 

Never before ¹  has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. ² 

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?” ¹ 

When a woman gives birth, she has distress ¹  because her time ²  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ³  has been born into the world. ⁴ 

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom ¹  Jesus was born, who is called Christ. ² 

– children not born ¹  by human parents ²  or by human desire ³  or a husband’s ⁴  decision, ⁵  but by God.

They asked the parents, ¹  “Is this your son, whom you say ²  was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

So his parents replied, ¹  “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

They replied, ¹  “You were born completely in sinfulness, ²  and yet you presume to teach us?” ³  So they threw him out.

Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, ¹  he appeared to me also.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem ¹  in Judea, in the time ²  of King Herod, ³  wise men ⁴  from the East came to Jerusalem ⁵ 

saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose ¹  and have come to worship him.”

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, ¹  he asked them where the Christ ²  was to be born.

Jesus replied, ¹  “I tell you the solemn truth, ²  unless a person is born from above, ³  he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ⁴