A Music teacher was carefully working with a young pupil during her piano lesson. Several times the same mistake was made because the child did not start out correctly. The teacher, pointing to the music, said, "Now begin again, and begin right." So the pupil began again and again until she began right, continued right, and ended right. The young girl remembered this lesson through many years.
Nicodemus, the Pharisee, was a man of authority and recognized the authority of the words and works of the Master, Christ Jesus. He sought to know more of their beginning and source and their goal or object.
The Bible account reads: "Nicodemus . . . came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:1-3). Jesus went on to explain that one must be born of water and of the Spirit in order to enter into the kingdom of God.
