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John 3:4

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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?” 1 

John 3:1

Context
Conversation with Nicodemus

3:1 Now a certain man, a Pharisee 2  named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council, 3 

Colossians 2:14

Context
2:14 He has destroyed 4  what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness 5  expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
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[3:4]  1 tn The grammatical structure of the question in Greek presupposes a negative reply.

[3:1]  2 sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.

[3:1]  3 tn Grk “a ruler of the Jews” (denoting a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

[2:14]  4 tn The participle ἐξαλείψας (exaleiyas) is a temporal adverbial participle of contemporaneous time related to the previous verb συνεζωοποίησεν (sunezwopoihsen), but has been translated as a finite verb because of the complexity of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences. For the meaning “destroy” see BDAG 344-45 s.v. ἐξαλείφω 2.

[2:14]  5 tn On the translation of χειρόγραφον (ceirografon), see BDAG 1083 s.v. which refers to it as “a certificate of indebtedness.”



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