That You May Believe | The Gospel of John || In John 3 Jesus declares to Nicodemus that to be saved you must be born again. Nicodemus expresses confusion to which Jesus uses the wind as another illustration. Prior to Jesus proclaiming the words in John 3:16 (perhaps the most famous and well-known verse in the Bible) He compares the moment of salvation to 2 things in this world that we have zero control over; our birth and the wind. Prior to our ‘believing’, we are entirely dependent on the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.