John 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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  • John 19:39 : 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
  • Luke 23:13 : 13 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
  • John 3:10 : 10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

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  • John 3:2-13
    12 verses
    86%

    2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

    3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

    4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

    5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

    8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

    9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"

    10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

    11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

    12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

    13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

  • John 7:50-51
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    50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

    51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

  • 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

  • 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

  • 26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

  • 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

  • 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

  • 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

  • 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

  • 13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

  • John 1:45-51
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    45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

    46 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

    47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

    48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

    49 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"

    50 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

    51 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

  • 57 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.

  • 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

  • 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

  • 1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

  • 1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

  • 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

  • 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

  • 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

  • 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

  • 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

  • 23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

  • 9 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

  • 24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

  • 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

  • 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

  • 1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

  • 1 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

  • 18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

  • 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

  • 19 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

  • 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.