John 3:4

Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb the second time, and be born?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

3Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.

5Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God.

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Cross References

John 4:11The woman said to him: Sir, you have no vessel with which you can draw, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

John 6:60Therefore, many of his disciples, when they heard him, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

1 Corinthians 2:14But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Matthew Henry on John 3:2-22

Christ's Interview with Nicodemus. 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 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. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time… Read the whole commentary →

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