John 3:9

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

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Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

In Context

8The 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.

10And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

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Cross References

Isaiah 42:16And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Luke 1:34And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

John 6:52Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

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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