John 3:8
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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In Context
7Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’
9Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
Cross References
Job 37:10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.
Job 37:21Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
Psalms 107:29He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Mark 4:26He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
John 1:13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the 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 →