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John 3:11
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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.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 3:11-13

We speak that we know, and . . . have seen—that is, by absolute knowledge and immediate vision of God, which "the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father" claims as exclusively His own (John 1:18). The "we" and "our" are here used, though Himself only is intended, in emphatic contrast, probably, with the opening words of Nicodemus, "Rabbi, we know.", etc.

ye receive not, etc.—referring to the class to which Nicodemus belonged, but from which he was beginning to be separated in spirit.


 
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