John 3:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

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Referenced Verses

  • John 6:52 : 52 The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us `his' flesh to eat?'
  • John 6:60 : 60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
  • Mark 8:24-25 : 24 and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.' 25 Afterwards again he put `his' hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,
  • John 3:4 : 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

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  • John 3:1-8
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    89%

    1And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

    2this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

    3Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

    4Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

    5Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

    6that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

    8the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

  • John 3:10-13
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    10Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

    12if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

    13and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

  • John 7:50-51
    2 verses
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    50Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

    51`Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

  • John 1:48-51
    4 verses
    73%

    48Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.'

    49Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

    50Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

    51and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

  • John 9:30
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    30The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

  • John 3:26-27
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    26and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

    27John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

  • John 1:13
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    13who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

  • John 9:25-26
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    25he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

    26And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

  • John 9:10
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    10They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?'

  • John 9:36-37
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    36he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'

    37And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'

  • Luke 20:7
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    7And they answered, that they knew not whence `it was',

  • John 6:62
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    62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

  • John 3:31
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    31he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

  • John 9:2-3
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    2and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

    3Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

  • John 9:19
    68%

    19and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

  • John 8:23
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    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

  • John 9:21
    68%

    21and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

  • John 9:33-34
    2 verses
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    33if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

    34They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

  • John 6:42
    68%

    42and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'

  • John 3:22
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    22After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

  • Matt 3:13
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    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

  • John 1:46
    68%

    46and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'

  • John 1:33
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    33and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

  • John 9:12
    67%

    12they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'

  • John 1:25
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    25and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

  • John 14:5
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    5Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'

  • John 6:28
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    28They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

  • John 2:18
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    18the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

  • John 7:36
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    36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'