The Story of Nicodemus Being Born Again

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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3At present at that place was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus^(A) who was a fellow member of the Jewish ruling council.^{(B) 2}He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi,^(C) we know^(D) that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs^(E) you are doing if God were not with him."^(F)

³Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, no one tin can run across the kingdom of God unless they are born again.^[a]"^(M)

⁴"How can someone be born when they are old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely they cannot enter a 2d fourth dimension into their mother's womb to be born!"

^vJesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one tin enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of h2o and the Spirit.^{(H) 6}Mankind gives birth to flesh, merely the Spirit^[b] gives nativity to spirit.^{(I) 7}You should non be surprised at my maxim, 'Yous^[c] must be born again.' ^eightThe wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its audio, but you cannot tell where information technology comes from or where information technology is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."^{[d] (J)}

⁹"How tin this be?"^(Yard) Nicodemus asked.

^x"You are Israel's instructor,"^(L) said Jesus, "and do you lot non understand these things? ¹¹Very truly I tell you, we speak of what nosotros know,^(Yard) and we show to what we take seen, but nonetheless you people practice not accept our testimony.^{(North) 12}I have spoken to you of earthly things and you exercise not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³No one has e'er gone into heaven^(O) except the i who came from heaven^(P)—the Son of Man.^{[e] (Q) 14}Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(R) so the Son of Human must be lifted upward,^{[f] (S) 15}that everyone who believes^(T) may have eternal life in him."^{[m] (U)}

^sixteenFor God and then loved^(V) the globe that he gave^{(Due west)} his ane and only Son,^(X) that whoever believes^(Y) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^{(Z) 17}For God did non transport his Son into the globe^(AA) to condemn the earth, but to save the world through him.^{(AB) xviii}Whoever believes in him is non condemned,^(AC) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and but Son.^{(Advertisement) 19}This is the verdict: Light^(AE) has come into the globe, but people loved darkness instead of calorie-free because their deeds were evil.^{(AF) twenty}Anybody who does evil hates the light, and will not come up into the light for fearfulness that their deeds will be exposed.^{(AG) 21}Just whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have washed has been done in the sight of God.

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Footnotes

1. John 3:3 The Greek for once again also means from to a higher place; too in poetry 7.
2. John 3:6 Or only spirit
3. John 3:seven The Greek is plural.
4. John three:eight The Greek for Spirit is the aforementioned as that for wind.
5. John 3:thirteen Some manuscripts Man, who is in heaven
6. John 3:14 The Greek for lifted up also ways exalted.
7. John 3:fifteen Some interpreters stop the quotation with verse 21.

Cantankerous references

1. John iii:1 : Jn seven:50; 19:39
2. John 3:i : Lk 23:13
3. John three:2 : Due south Mt 23:vii
4. John three:two : ver 11
5. John 3:2 : S Jn 2:11
6. John 3:2 : Jn ten:38; 14:ten, 11; Ac 2:22; ten:38
7. John 3:3 : S Mt 3:2; Southward Jn 1:13
8. John iii:5 : S Air conditioning 22:16; Tit 3:five
9. John 3:6 : Due south Jn 1:13; 1Co fifteen:l
10. John three:8 : 1Co 2:14-16
11. John 3:9 : Jn vi:52, 60
12. John three:10 : Lk 2:46
13. John iii:11 : Jn one:18; 7:16, 17
14. John 3:11 : ver 32
15. John 3:13 : Pr 30:4; Air conditioning 2:34; Eph 4:8-10
16. John 3:13 : ver 31; Jn vi:38, 42; Heb 4:xiv; ix:24
17. John 3:13 : Due south Mt 8:xx
18. John 3:14 : Nu 21:8, 9
19. John 3:14 : Southward Jn 12:32
20. John 3:xv : ver 16, 36; Ge 15:vi; Nu xiv:11; Mt 27:42; Mk 1:15; Jn i:7, 12; 2:23; 5:24; seven:38; twenty:29; Ac xiii:39; sixteen:31; Ro 3:22; 10:9, 10; 1Jn 5:1, 5, ten
21. John iii:15 : ver 16, 36; Due south Mt 25:46; Jn 20:31
22. John 3:16 : Ro 5:viii; Eph 2:4; 1Jn 4:nine, 10
23. John 3:16 : Isa 9:6; Ro 8:32
24. John 3:16 : Ge 22:12; Jn 1:eighteen
25. John 3:xvi : S ver 15
26. John 3:sixteen : ver 36; Jn 6:29, twoscore; 11:25, 26
27. John 3:17 : Jn half-dozen:29, 57; 10:36; xi:42; 17:eight, 21; 20:21
28. John 3:17 : Isa 53:11; S Mt 1:21; South Lk 2:eleven; xix:ten; Jn 1:29; 12:47; S Ro 11:xiv; 1Ti 1:xv; ii:5, 6; 1Jn two:2; 3:5
29. John 3:eighteen : Jn 5:24
30. John 3:xviii : Jn one:18; 1Jn iv:9
31. John iii:19 : Southward Jn 1:four
32. John three:19 : Ps 52:3; Jn 7:7
33. John 3:xx : Eph 5:11, 13

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