Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
Finally at least one writer understood that when Jesus said "spirit" He meant it in the sense of wind (Gr. pneuma) and used it as a symbol of God’s life-giving work. [Note: Zane C. Hodges, "Water and Spirit-John 3:5," Bibliotheca Sacra 135:539 (July-September 1978):206-20.] This view holds that the wind is parallel to the water that also symbolizes God’s supernatural work of regeneration. However this is an unusual though legitimate meaning of pneuma. In the immediate context (John 3:6) pneuma seems to mean spirit rather than wind. This fact has led almost all translators to render pneuma as "spirit" rather than as "wind" in John 3:5, even though it means "wind" in John 3:8.