John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?
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- John 3:3 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
- John 4:11-12 : 11 The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?
- 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
- John 6:53 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.
- John 6:60 : 60 Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?
- 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
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- John 3:1-33 verses91%
1 Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews.
2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.
3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
- John 3:5-1410 verses90%
5 Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
8 The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
9 And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
10 And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?
11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.
12 If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?
13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
14 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:
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50 Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,
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13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
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23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
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3 And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
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62 What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?
- John 1:50-512 verses69%
50 In answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these.
51 And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.
- John 3:26-272 verses69%
26 And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.
27 And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
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31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.
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17 Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.
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34 Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.
- John 9:1-33 verses67%
1 And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?
3 Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.
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15 Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.
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23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
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13 Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:
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4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
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1 Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
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13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.
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9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
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42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?
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19 And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?
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18 And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.
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26 Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?
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41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
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21 But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.
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32 In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.
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18 Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.
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22 After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he was with them for some time, giving baptism.
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46 But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.
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46 So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.
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30 The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.
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21 But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
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10 So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open?
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19 And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.