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John 3:8

The ruach (wind, Spirit) blows where it wishes, and the sound of it you hear, but you do not have da'as of where it comes from and where it goes; + 3:8 Koh 11:5 so it is with everyone having been born of the Ruach Hakodesh. + 3:8 Ezek 37:9

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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, It is necessary for you to be born again, born anew.

9In reply, Rav Nakdimon said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How is it possible for these things to happen?

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Cross References

Job 37:10By the neshamah of El frost is given, 1 and the broad mayim are frozen. 1

Job 37:21And now men cannot look at the bright ohr which is in the clouds, 1 when the ruach passeth, and cleareth them. 1

Psalms 107:29He made the sa'arah (storm) a calm, 1 so that the galim (waves) thereof were still. + 107:29 Mk 4:41 1

Isaiah 55:9For as Shomayim is higher than ha'aretz, 1 so are the darkhei of Me higher than the darkhei of you, 1 and My machshevot than your machshevot. 1

Mark 4:26And he was saying, Thus is the Malchut Hashem: like a man who casts seed upon the soil,

John 1:13He gave this tokef to the ones whose being born was not by the agency of natural descent, nor by the ratzon (will) of basar (fallen human nature), nor by the ratzon of a gever (male) — rather, to the ones born of G-d. + 1:13 Yn 3:3,7

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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