John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him,“How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
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- John 3:3 : 3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- John 4:11-12 : 11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water? 12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
- 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- John 6:53 : 53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
- John 6:60 : 60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said,“This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”
- 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 The Message of the Cross For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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- John 3:1-33 verses91%
1Conversation with Nicodemus Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,
2came to Jesus at night and said to him,“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”
3Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- John 3:5-1410 verses90%
5Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘You must all be born from above.’
8The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9Nicodemus replied,“How can these things be?”
10Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
11I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
12If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven– the Son of Man.
14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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50Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,
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13– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
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23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
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3and said,“I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
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62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?
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50Jesus said to him,“Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
51He continued,“I tell all of you the solemn truth– you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
- John 3:26-272 verses69%
26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”
27John replied,“No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
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31The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.
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17I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
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34They replied,“You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
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1Healing a Man Born Blind Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2His disciples asked him,“Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”
3Jesus answered,“Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.
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15I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
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23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.
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13Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
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4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
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1Jesus as the Good Shepherd“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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13The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
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42and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”
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19They asked the parents,“Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
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18Zechariah said to the angel,“How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”
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26Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”
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41You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
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32Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.
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18I tell you the solemn truth, when you were young, you tied your clothes around you and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up and bring you where you do not want to go.”
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46However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
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21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
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19Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”