John 3:8
The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew.
9Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
Cross References
Job 37:10By the breath of God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Job 37:21And now [men] see not the light as it gleameth, it is [hidden] in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.
Psalms 107:29He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:
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, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast the seed upon the earth,
John 1:13who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.
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 →