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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. “He has no idea of what it is; he cannot perceive it; he has not the faculty by which he could see or understand the meaning of the kingdom of God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Here is a greater miracle than I have wrought in the outside world. Here is a spiritual miracle. This is what you must receive as well as others. You cannot even understand my kingdom, and know what it means — you cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Staggering at the symbol, he stumbled at the letter of Christ’s saying, and did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Without a new birth, “he cannot see,” he cannot comprehend, he cannot understand, he cannot know anything about “the kingdom of God.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nicodemus saith unto him,.... Understanding him of a natural birth, to be repeated: how can a man be born when he is old? as it seems by this, he himself now was: can he enter the second time into his mothers womb, and be born? the Ethiopic version adds, "again"; and the Arabic version, "and then be born"; this he urges, as absurd, impracticable,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is old/ can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. We understand the passage to mean, “Water, that is, the Spirit;” but it may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. If the “water” mentioned here relates to baptism,—which I greatly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? His questions proved that he could not see the kingdom of God. He blundered over the letter of Christ’s message; he misunderstood the metaphor that Christ used; but did Jesus therefore not give Nicodemus any further...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. At first Jesus said that a man could not see the kingdom of God except he was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? His religion was external, you see; he could not grasp the spiritual idea which Christ had set before him. This matter of the new birth is very simple to all of us who know what Jesus meant, but it was exceedingly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Thus do men interpret Christ’s figures literally, and this has been the basis of a great many mischiefs and false doctrines. When he is using metaphors to make the thing plain, they straightway use the metaphor rather as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Ah, me! our blessed Master taught much by parables, and parabolic teaching is the best of teaching; but you see how readily it can be misunderstood, how men can take the emblem in a carnal way, and not understand its...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee,.... Explaining somewhat more clearly, what he before said: except a man be born of water and of the Spirit: these are, שנות מלות, "two words", which express the same thing, as Kimchi observes in many places in his commentaries, and signify the grace of the Spirit of God. The Vulgate Latin and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. There must be a purifying operation upon his heart and mind, he must be spiritually washed and cleansed, and the Spirit of God must create him anew; otherwise he cannot possibly enter into the kingdom of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The entrance into that kingdom is by a new birth in which water and the Spirit of God are both needful. There is a cleansing, and there is a new creation. There is the cleansing water of the merit of Christ,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. He cannot be Christ’s professed disciple except he receive the Spirit, and except he be baptized — if the water here relates to baptism at all, which we judge it does not. He must be renewed, and washed, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh;- Flesh, and nothing more; and it never can be anything more than flesh. The first birth brings no one any further than that. The children of the most godly parents, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. If the water here signifies baptism, — mark you, if it does, — then, observe, that there is no entering into the kingdom without it. I do not think that baptism is here intended at all, but the purifying...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh,.... Man by his natural birth, and as he is born according to the flesh of his natural parents, is a mere natural man; that is, he is carnal and corrupt, and cannot discern spiritual things; nor can he, as such, enter into, and inherit the kingdom of God; see 1 Corinthians 2:14. And therefore there is a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; Parents may be the most devout people who ever lived, but that which is born of them is only flesh. Joh_3:6. And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. It is only then, as we are born of the Spirit of God that there is any spiritual life in us whatsoever.