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Text -- John 3:1-17 (NET)
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Conversation with Nicodemus
3:1 Now a certain man , a Pharisee named Nicodemus , who was a member of the Jewish ruling council ,
3:2 came 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 .”
3:3 Jesus replied , “I tell you the solemn truth , unless a person is born from above , he cannot cannot see the kingdom of God .”
3:4 Nicodemus said to him , “How can a man be born when he is old ? He cannot cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time , can he?”
3:5 Jesus answered , “I tell you the solemn truth , unless a person is born of water and spirit , he cannot cannot enter the kingdom of God .
3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh , and what is born of the Spirit is spirit .
3:7 Do not be amazed that I said to you , ‘You must all be born from above .’
3:8 The 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 .”
3:9 Nicodemus replied , “How can these things be ?”
3:10 Jesus answered , “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things ?
3:11 I 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 .
3:12 If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe , how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things ?
3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man .
3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , so must the Son of Man be lifted up ,
3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life .”
3:16 For this is the way God loved the world : He gave his one and only Son , so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life .
3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world , but that the world should be saved through him .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Nicodemus |
Life |
Jesus, The Christ |
Salvation |
Regeneration |
JESUS CHRIST, 4B |
Baptismal Regeneration |
JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 2 |
BEAR; BORN |
Birth |
Blindness |
Mankind |
SIN (1) |
JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 1 |
Mysteries |
Faith |
Call |
ETHICS OF JESUS |
PAPYRUS |
VERILY, VERITY |
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NET Notes -> Joh 3:1; Joh 3:1; Joh 3:2; Joh 3:2; Joh 3:2; Joh 3:2; Joh 3:3; Joh 3:3; Joh 3:3; Joh 3:3; Joh 3:3; Joh 3:4; Joh 3:5; Joh 3:5; Joh 3:5; Joh 3:6; Joh 3:7; Joh 3:7; Joh 3:8; Joh 3:8; Joh 3:9; Joh 3:9; Joh 3:10; Joh 3:10; Joh 3:11; Joh 3:11; Joh 3:11; Joh 3:11; Joh 3:12; Joh 3:12; Joh 3:13; Joh 3:13; Joh 3:13; Joh 3:13; Joh 3:14; Joh 3:14; Joh 3:14; Joh 3:14; Joh 3:15; Joh 3:15; Joh 3:16; Joh 3:16; Joh 3:16; Joh 3:16; Joh 3:17
NET Notes: Joh 3:1 Grk “a ruler of the Jews” (denoting a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
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NET Notes: Joh 3:2 The reference to signs (σημεῖα, shmeia) forms a link with John 2:23-25. Those people in Jerusalem believed in Jesus bec...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:3 What does Jesus’ statement about not being able to see the kingdom of God mean within the framework of John’s Gospel? John uses the word k...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:5 Jesus’ somewhat enigmatic statement points to the necessity of being born “from above,” because water and wind/spirit/Spirit come fr...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, i.e., what is born of physical heritage is physical. (It is interesting to compare this terminology with that of t...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:7 Or “born again.” The same Greek word with the same double meaning occurs in v. 3.
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NET Notes: Joh 3:8 Again, the physical illustrates the spiritual, although the force is heightened by the word-play here on wind-spirit (see the note on wind at the begi...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:9 “How can these things be?” is Nicodemus’ answer. It is clear that at this time he has still not grasped what Jesus is saying. Note a...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:10 Jesus’ question “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?” implies that Nicodemus had enough i...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:11 Note the remarkable similarity of Jesus’ testimony to the later testimony of the Apostle John himself in 1 John 1:2: “And we have seen and...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:12 Obviously earthly things and heavenly things are in contrast, but what is the contrast? What are earthly things which Jesus has just spoken to Nicodem...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:14 So must the Son of Man be lifted up. This is ultimately a prediction of Jesus’ crucifixion. Nicodemus could not have understood this, but John...
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NET Notes: Joh 3:16 The alternatives presented are only two (again, it is typical of Johannine thought for this to be presented in terms of polar opposites): perish or ha...
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