The Accomplished Plan of Salvation (6) October 6th, 2015, Kichijouji Bible Study
Gotthold Beck
John
3:1 Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.
3:2 He came to Jesus at night and told him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him.”
3:3 Jesus replied to him, “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
3:4 Nicodemus asked him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He can’t go back into his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”
3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Don’t be astonished that I told you, ‘All of you must be born from above.’
3:8 The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. That’s the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
3:9 Nicodemus asked him, “How can that be?”
3:10 Jesus answered him, “You’re a teacher of Israel, and you can’t understand this?