Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 3:3
Verily, verily, I say unto thee. This form of expression was
often upon the lips of Jesus to give emphasis to an unusually solemn
and weighty declaration. It occurs twenty-five times in John.
See PNT "Mt 5:18".
Except a man be born again, etc. The Greek term "anothen",
translated "again", is rendered "anew" in the Revised Version, which is
better. It is the great doctrine, so fundamental in the Gospel, of
Regeneration, a new birth, being made a new creature, the same doctrine
spoken of in John 1:12. Nicodemus, like all Jews, supposed that
all who were born as children of Abraham would, as Abraham's seed, be
citizens of the kingdom, but Jesus shows him that no one can be a new
creature in Christ Jesus unless he is born anew. We are born naturally
into the kingdom of nature, to live the natural life; if we enter the
kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of grace, it must be by a new birth. The
doctrine that a man can bury his old sinful life, and begin a new one
with the freshness of youthful hope, is foreshadowed in the Old
Testament (Isaiah 1:18 Jer 31:33 Eze 11:19 36:26), and taught in the
New Testament (Romans 6:8 8:3 12:2 2Co 5:17 Ga 6:15,16).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 4:12
John 1:13
John 3:3
1 Peter 1:23
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