John 3:8
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
7Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
9And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
Cross References
Job 37:10By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.
Job 37:21And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.
Psalms 107:29He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.
Isaiah 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Mark 4:26And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,
John 1:13Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
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 →