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This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old?
The word in Greek: ἄνωθεν, may be translated as either "again" or "from above". The King James Version, the English Standard Version and the New International Version all say "born again", whereas the New Revised Standard Version and Young's Literal Translation both have "born from above" in their text with an alternative note "born anew ...
In the sermon entitled A New Birth he writes, "none can be holy unless he be born again", and "except he be born again, none can be happy even in this world. For [...] a man should not be happy who is not holy." Also, "I say, [a man] may be born again and so become an heir of salvation."
Jesus replies: "Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Then follows a conversation with Nicodemus about the meaning of being " born again " or "born from above" ( Greek : ἄνωθεν ): Nicodemus explores the notion of being literally born again from one's mother's womb , but most theologians recognise that Nicodemus knew ...
This verse is the beginning of a tirade by John the Baptist. This lecture is also found in Luke, with this verse being very similar to Luke 3:7.This section is not found in Mark and most scholars believe that Matthew and Luke are both copying from the hypothetical Q.
John 3:16 is the sixteenth verse in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, one of the four gospels in the New Testament.It is the most popular verse from the Bible [1] and is a summary of one of Christianity's central doctrines—the relationship between the Father (God) and the Son of God (Jesus).
The Gospel says, unless the fallen soul be born again from above, be born again of the Word or Son, and the Spirit of God, it cannot see, nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. .... Nothing is, or can possibly be salvation, but this regenerated life of the soul. [19]
Saint Remigius: Yet was not the Lord born there; thus they knew the time but not the place of His birth. Jerusalem being the royal city, they believed that such a child could not be born in any other. Or it was to fulfil that Scripture, The Law shall go out of Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isa. 2:3.)