John 3:1-3
THE VISIT OF NICODEMUS. The call by night:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VISIT OF NICODEMUS. The call by night:... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A MAN OF THE PHARISEES, NAMED NICODEMUS, A RULER OF THE JEWS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT AND SAID UNTO HIM, RABBI, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART A TEACHER COME FROM GOD; FOR NO MAN CAN DO THESE MIRACLES THAT THOU DOEST EXCEPT GOD BE WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Here is an incident from the happenings of this Passover week which shows the Savior's kind and searching love. There was a certain man in Jerusalem that belonged to the P... [ Continue Reading ]
NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO HIM, HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD? CAN HE ENTER THE SECOND TIME INTO HIS MOTHER'S WOMB AND BE BORN?... [ Continue Reading ]
The mode of regeneration:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
MARVEL NOT THAT I SAID UNTO THEE, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTED, AND THOU HEAREST THE SOUND THEREOF, BUT CANST NOT TELL WHENCE IT COMETH AND WHITHER IT GOETH: SO IS EVERYONE THAT IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT. The statement of Jesus, simple as it was, was at the same time so thoroughly at variance with the commonly accepted idea as to th... [ Continue Reading ]
NICODEMUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE?... [ Continue Reading ]
The witness from above:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU A MASTER OF ISRAEL AND KNOWEST NOT THESE THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, WE SPEAK THAT WE DO KNOW, AND TESTIFY THAT WE HAVE SEEN; AND YE RECEIVE NOT OUR WITNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I HAVE TOLD YOU EARTHLY THINGS, AND YE BELIEVE NOT, HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE IF I TELL YOU OF HEAVENLY THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN BUT HE THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, EVEN THE SON OF MAN WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. Nicodemus could not understand yet, and so proceeded to ask a human explanation of a divine phenomenon. He wanted to know how these things could be; he wanted a plausible exposition. His... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP,... [ Continue Reading ]
The purpose of Christ's coming:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. The act of Moses in the wilderness, in erecting the brazen serpent before the eyes of the stricken people, was typical, symbolical, Numbers 21:1. The people that had been bitten by the fiery... [ Continue Reading ]
The contrast between light and darkness:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED; BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, THAT LIGHT IS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERYONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT DOETH TRUTH COMETH TO THE LIGHT, THAT HIS DEEDS MAY BE MADE MANIFEST, THAT THEY ARE WROUGHT IN GOD. Jesus did not come to condemn the world, and yet the bulk of the world is condemned. This is neither the will nor the fault of Jesus, however, but that of the unbelievers themselves. The b... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THESE THINGS CAME JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES INTO THE LAND OF JUDEA; AND THERE HE TARRIED WITH THEM AND BAPTIZED.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHN'S SECOND TESTIMONY OF CHRIST. Christ's ministry and John's baptism:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOHN ALSO WAS BAPTIZING IN AENON, NEAR TO SALIM, BECAUSE THERE WAS MUCH WATER THERE; AND THEY CAME AND WERE BAPTIZED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. After the conversation with Nicodemus and after the days of the Passover Jesus left Jerusalem, but not Judea. He went out into the rural districts with His disciples, and there He spent some time with them. He had an opportunity at this time, when He was not ye... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THERE AROSE A QUESTION BETWEEN SOME OF JOHN'S DISCIPLES AND THE JEWS ABOUT PURIFYING.... [ Continue Reading ]
The dispute concerning purifying:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAME UNTO JOHN AND SAID UNTO HIM, RABBI, HE THAT WAS WITH THEE BEYOND JORDAN, TO WHOM THOU BAREST WITNESS, BEHOLD, THE SAME BAPTIZETH, AND ALL MEN COME TO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHN ANSWERED AND SAID, A MAN CAN RECEIVE NOTHING EXCEPT IT BE GIVEN HIM FROM HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE YOURSELVES BEAR ME WITNESS THAT I SAID, I AM NOT THE CHRIST, BUT THAT I AM SENT BEFORE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT HATH THE BRIDE IS THE BRIDEGROOM; BUT THE FRIEND OF THE BRIDEGROOM, WHICH STANDETH AND HEARETH HIM, REJOICETH GREATLY BECAUSE OF THE BRIDEGROOM'S VOICE. THIS MY JOY THEREFORE IS FULFILLED. "Then," at that time, in consequence of the proximity of the two great teachers, there arose a searchin... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MUST INCREASE, BUT I MUST DECREASE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The value of Christ's testimony:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT COMETH FROM ABOVE IS ABOVE ALL; HE THAT IS OF THE EARTH IS EARTHLY, AND SPEAKETH OF THE EARTH; HE THAT COMETH FROM HEAVEN IS ABOVE ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHAT HE HATH SEEN AND HEARD, THAT HE TESTIFIETH; AND NO MAN RECEIVETH HIS TESTIMONY.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT HATH RECEIVED HIS TESTIMONY HATH SET TO HIS SEAL THAT GOD IS TRUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WHOM GOD HATH SENT SPEAKETH THE WORDS OF GOD; FOR GOD GIVETH NOT THE SPIRIT BY MEASURE UNTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHER LOVETH THE SON, AND HATH GIVEN ALL THINGS INTO HIS HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON THE SON HATH EVERLASTING LIFE; AND HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE, BUT THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDETH ON HIM. The conclusion which John draws from the facts as stated by him is simple: Jesus must grow; that is a necessity connected with His work. And in the same pro... [ Continue Reading ]