John 3:10

John 3:10

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,

15 that whoever ^abelieves in Him should not perish but ^bhave eternal life.

16 ^aFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten ^bSon, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

17 ^aFor God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 ^a“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, ^athat the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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The teacher of Israel (o didaskalov tou Israhl). The well-known or the authorized (the accepted) teacher of the Israel of God. Note both articles.

And understandest not these things? (kai tauta ou ginwskeis). After being told by Jesus and after so propitious a start. His Pharisaic theology had made him almost proof against spiritual apprehension. It was outside of his groove (rote, rut, rot, the three terrible r's of mere traditionalism).

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