John 3:8

The + 3:8 Pneuma, Gk. A play on words. The Greek word for wind and Spirit are identical.wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

In Context

7Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born + 3:7 Anothen, Gk. Can also mean from above.again.’

9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

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Cross References

Mark 4:26And He said, “Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed on the ground,

John 1:13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1 God Takes a Body

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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