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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nicodemus answered and said unto him,.... Remaining still as ignorant as ever, though Christ had explained the phrase "born again", at which he stumbled, by a being "born of water and of the Spirit", or of the grace of the Spirit of God; and had illustrated this by the free, powerful, and invisible blowing of the wind: how can these things be? The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knoweth not these things? “So learned in the law of God, art thou ignorant of the Spirit of God? Hast thou read the law so many times, and yet not found out that natural births and outward washings are of no avail in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? “These things” that lie at the very root of everything. “Art thou a Rabbi and dost thou not know this?” Alas, good Master, there are still many Rabbis who do not understand this; many, who have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? He was puzzled and perplexed, like a man in a maze; the Saviour had given him something to think of; and I wish that, when we preach to a congregation, or when we talk to individuals, we would not aim at dazzling them with our fine phrases, but would seek to set the truth before their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? He did not deny that they might be; but he asked how they could be. Ah, many a man has asked the same question! “How may I be made anew? How may I become a new creature?” Only he that makes all things can make all things new. The new birth is as great a wonder as creation itself; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knoweth not these things? “Dost thou profess to teach others, and hast thou never been taught this first great spiritual truth?” Nicodemus was not the last Rabbi who did not understand what it is to be born again, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered, and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? These simple things — these elementary principles — these rudiments of the school book of believers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? A very similar query to that might be put to some who are living now “Are you profound philosophers, students deeply learned in classic lore, or wise concerning many of the mysteries of nature;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? These A B C truths, which are taught in the very first school-book used by Christ’s scholars, — “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered and said unto him,.... Upbraiding him with his continued and invincible ignorance, which was aggravated by his dignified character: art thou a master in Israel? or "of Israel", as all the Oriental versions render it, as it literally may be rendered he was one of the חכמי ישראל, "wise men", or "doctors of Israel" (r), so often...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? The Saviour as good as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered and said, unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? These truths lie on the very doorstep of our holy religion. There are deeper and higher mysteries than these.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we do know,.... Meaning either himself, and John the Baptist his forerunner, who preached the same doctrine of regeneration, internal sanctification, and evangelical repentance, as well as outward reformation, as necessary to entrance into the kingdom of heaven, or the Gospel dispensation, he declared...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? “If, at the very entrance to the kingdom of heaven, you say, ‘How can these things be?’ what will you say if I take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Spiritual men declare that there are spiritual things. They know them, and have seen them; and they have a right to be believed, for they are not liars. They are honest men, and speak what they do know; yet, often, their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, Common-place things, the lower things of faith. “If I have told you these,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. The testimony of Christ, and of his apostles, and of all true disciples of Christ is this,--that there is such a thing as a new birth. Men may not believe that it is true; but, for all that, it is as certain as any other fact...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen: and ye receive not our witness. This was an additional hint to Nicodemus of the unbelief that still lingered in him. “Ye receive not our witness.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Christ speaks with an authority that no mere human teacher can ever possess. Joh_3:11. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. In a certain sense, every true minister of Christ and every true child of God, can say this, for we know that there is a spiritual kingdom....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. This is true of all faithful ministers of the gospel; we do not preach theories, we preach facts. We do not talk about speculations; we speak of a new birth through which we have ourselves passed. If there be no such thing, we...