What Jesus Required of Nicodemus

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again" (John 3:7).
The Lord Jesus made this seemingly irrational statement to a man who came to seek Him out. We don't read about Nicodemus' accepting the Lord's words; what He said seemed to be too hard a concept for him to swallow. He asks, "How can these things be?” The Lord was referring to being born of the Spirit, obtaining new life from God. This is something to which our reasoning power will never lead us. It requires that we just take Christ at His word, even though we don't completely understand. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.