New King James Version
John 3:7
7Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
- New International Version (NIV)You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
- New Living Translation (NLT)So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’
Context of John 3:7
5Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8The 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.” 9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
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μὴ θαυμάσῃς ὅτι εἶπόν σοι· δεῖ ὑμᾶς γεννηθῆναι ἄνωθεν.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for John 3:7
- John 3:12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
- John 5:28Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
- John 6:61When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?
- John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- Job 15:14“What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
- Matthew 13:33Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”
- Romans 3:9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
- Romans 9:22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
- Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
- Ephesians 4:22that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
- Colossians 1:12giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
- Hebrews 12:14Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
- 1 Peter 1:14as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
- Revelation 21:27But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Commentaries on John 3:7
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Marvel not - Wonder not. It is possible that Nicodemus in some way still expressed a doubt of the doctrine, and Jesus took occasion in a very striking manner to illustrate it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-86-8. That which is born, &c.--A great universal proposition; "That which is begotten carries within itself the nature of that which begat it" [Olshausen]. flesh--Not the mere material body, but all that comes into the world by birth, the entire man; yet not humanity simply, but in its corrupted, depraved condition, in complete subjection to the law of the fall (Ro 8:1-9). So that though a man "could enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born,"…Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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