John 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • 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 3:1-3
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    1Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews.

    2He 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.

    3Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

  • John 3:5-14
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    5Jesus 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.

    6That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

    7Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

    8The 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.

    9And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

    10And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

    11Truly, 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.

    12If 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?

    13And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

    14As 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:

  • John 7:50
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    50Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

  • John 1:13
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    13Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23Because 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.

  • Matt 18:3
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    3And 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.

  • John 6:62
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    62What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

  • John 1:50-51
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    50In 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.

    51And 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 3:26-27
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    26And 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.

    27And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

  • John 3:31
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    31He 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.

  • Luke 18:17
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    17Truly 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.

  • John 9:34
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    34Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.

  • John 9:1-3
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    1And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.

    2And 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?

    3Jesus 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.

  • Mark 10:15
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    15Truly 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.

  • John 8:23
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    23And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • John 4:13
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    13Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

  • Job 25:4
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    4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

  • John 10:1
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    1Truly 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.

  • Matt 3:13
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    13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

  • 1 John 3:9
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    9Anyone 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.

  • John 6:42
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    42And 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?

  • John 9:19
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    19And 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?

  • Luke 1:18
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    18And 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.

  • John 9:26
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    26Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?

  • John 8:41
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    41You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • John 9:21
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    21But 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.

  • John 9:32
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    32In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

  • John 21:18
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    18Truly 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.

  • John 3:22
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    22After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he was with them for some time, giving baptism.

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

  • John 4:46
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    46So 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.

  • John 9:30
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    30The 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.

  • John 2:21
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    21But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

  • John 9:10
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    10So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open?

  • John 2:19
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    19And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.