John 3:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ θαυμάσῃς ὅτι εἶπόν σοι, Δεῖ ὑμᾶς γεννηθῆναι ἄνωθεν.

Transliteration

Not thaumasēs hoti eipon soi, Dei hymas gennēthēnai anōthen.

Grammar Details

• *thaumasēs*: aorist, subjunctive, 2nd singular - you should marvel/wonder
• *hoti*: conjunction - that/because
• *eipon*: aorist, 1st singular - I said
• *soi*: personal pronoun, dative - to you
• *Dei*: present, 3rd singular, impersonal - it is necessary
• *hymas*: personal pronoun, accusative, plural - you [plural]
• *gennēthēnai*: aorist, passive, infinitive - to be born
• *anōthen*: adverb - from above/again

Word Meanings

• *Dei*: it is necessary/must/should
• *anōthen*: from above/again/anew
• *thaumasēs*: marvel/be amazed/be astonished

Referenced Verses

• John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.›
• Eph 4:22-24 : 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• Matt 13:33-35 : 33 Another parable spake he unto them; ‹The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.› 34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
• John 5:28 : 28 ‹Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,›
• John 6:61-63 : 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, ‹Doth this offend you?› 62 [What] ‹and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?› 63 ‹It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,› [they] ‹are spirit, and› [they] ‹are life.›
• Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Rom 9:22-25 : 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 ¶ As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
• Rom 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Job 15:14 : 14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• John 3:12 : 12 ‹If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you› [of] ‹heavenly things?›
• Col 1:12 : 12 ¶ Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
• Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.