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John 3:2-4
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2 This man came to him at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are[a] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him.” 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above,[b] he is not able to see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother’s womb for the second time and be born, can he?”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:2 Here both the pronoun and verb are understood in Greek and are supplied in the translation
  2. John 3:3 The same Greek word can mean either “from above” or “again,” which allows for the misunderstanding by Nicodemus here; Jesus was speaking of new birth “from above,” while Nicodemus misunderstood him to mean a second physical birth
  3. John 3:4 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “can he”
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