John 3:8

Let me illustrate: The wind blows wherever it wants to blow. You hear its sound, but you do not know where the wind comes from or where it is going. Similarly, those who do not know God cannot understand/control/predict how people are born again as a result of what God’s spirit does.”

Translation for Translators

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 be surprised about my telling you that you must be born again and have a new life from God.

9Nicodemus replied to him, “How can that happen?”

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Cross References

Job 37:10In the ◄winter/cold season►, the cold north wind is like God’s breath that causes [MET] water to freeze; he causes the lakes/streams to become ice.

Job 37:21Now, people cannot look directly at the sun when it shines brightly in the sky after the wind has blown the clouds away; so, we certainly cannot look at the brightness of God.

Psalms 107:29He ◄calmed the storm/caused the wind to stop blowing►, and he caused the waves to completely subside.

Isaiah 55:9Just as the sky is far above the earth, what I do is far greater than what you do, and what I think is much greater than what you think.

Mark 4:26Jesus also said, “God has the power to change people who let him rule their lives. I will illustrate how that can happen [MET]. A man planted seeds in the ground.

John 1:13We became like God’s children, not because our ancestors belonged to God, or because of someone’s sexual desires, nor because some man desired to have children like himself. Instead, we were caused by God {God caused us} to become like his children.

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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