Read verse in KJV Bible Reader
John Gill
If I have told you earthly things,.... Not that the doctrines he delivered were earthly ones; for he was not of the earth, but from heaven, and above all, and so spake not of the earth, but of heaven, John 3:31; and this doctrine of regeneration was an heavenly doctrine; and the thing itself required supernatural power, and grace from above: but either they were the more easy doctrines of the...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. Christ's discourse with Nicodemus, a Pharisee, concerning the great mysteries of the gospel, in which he here privately instructs him, ver. 1-21. II. John Baptist's discourse with his disciples concerning Christ, upon occasion of his coming into the neighbourhood where John was (ver. 22-36), in which he fairly and faithfully resigns all his honour and interest to him....
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 you into the central metropolis of truth, and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? If these elementary truths about the new birth stagger you, what is the use of my going on to anything higher? You would not understand it, or receive it.
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 told Nicodemus that he did not come to argue or to...
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,”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? There are mysteries in our holy religion which we would not tell to everybody. It would be casting pearls before swine to mention them to unregenerate men. Christ tells Nicodemus that the primary truths must be believed before the more advanced doctrines can be revealed.
Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? For regeneration is, as it were, one of the commonplaces of the Christian religion. It is a thing that very often takes place among men; but if this foundation truth is not believed, how can men expect that yet higher truths shall be revealed to them?
Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have told you earthly things, Things that have to do with men while here below. Joh_3:12. And ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? If I lift the veil, and talk to you about greater mysteries still, if you do not believe about regeneration, where will you be if I begin to talk of any Godhead, and of all the inner secrets?
Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have told you earthly things,- Things that take place here below, such as the new birth, — Joh_3:12. And ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Christ will not go on to teach us the deepest doctrines of the Christian faith if we will not learn that which is simplest. Shall the boy be taught the classics if he will not study the spelling-book? If men will not...
Charles H. Spurgeon
If have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Regeneration is a work that is wrought here on earth, and belongs to this present life. High as the mystery is, it lies but at the very threshold of the temple of divine truth: “If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”...