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7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 aThe wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”  
9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, a“How can these things be?”  
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
11 aMost assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and byou do not receive Our witness.  
12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 aNo one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man1 who is in heaven.  
14 aAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so bmust the Son of Man be lifted up,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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How, etc.—Though the subject still confounds Nicodemus, the necessity and possibility of the new birth is no longer the point with him, but the nature of it and how it is brought about [LUTHARDT]. "From this moment Nicodemus says nothing more, but has sunk unto a disciple who has found his true teacher. Therefore the Saviour now graciously advances in His communications of truth, and once more solemnly brings to the mind of this teacher in Israel, now become a learner, his own not guiltless ignorance, that He may then proceed to utter, out of the fulness of His divine knowledge, such farther testimonies both of earthly and heavenly things as his docile scholar may to his own profit receive" [STIER].


 
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