John 3:8
the Spirit blows where [that] One wills, and you hear [that] One’s voice, but you have not known from where [that] One comes, and to where [that] One goes; thus is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7You may not wonder that I said to you, It is required for you to be born from above;
9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How are these things able to happen?”
Cross References
Job 37:10From the breath of God is frost given, || And the breadth of waters is constricted,
Job 37:21And now, they have not seen the light, || It [is] bright in the clouds, || And the wind has passed by and cleanses them.
Psalms 107:29He calms a whirlwind, || And their billows are hushed.
Isaiah 55:9“For [as] high [as] the heavens have been above the earth, || So high have been My ways above your ways, || And My thoughts above your thoughts.
Mark 4:26And He said, “Thus is the Kingdom of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
John 1:13who were begotten, not of blood, nor of will of flesh, nor of will of man, 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 →