John 3:7
Do not wonder at my telling you that you all need to be reborn.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 13:33This was another parable which Jesus related — “The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen.”
John 3:12If, when I tell you earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things?
John 6:61But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:
Romans 9:22And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,
Ephesians 4:22For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;
Hebrews 12:14Try earnestly to live at peace with every one, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.
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 →