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JOHN 3:13 avnqrw,pou {B}
On the one hand, a minority of the Committee preferred the reading
avnqrw,pou o` w'n evn tw|/ ouvranw|/, arguing that (1) if the short
reading, supported almost exclusively b...
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Verse John 3:13. _NO MAN HATH ASCENDED_] This seems a figurative
expression for, _No man hath known the mysteries of the kingdom of_
_God_; as in Deuteronomy 30:12; Psalms 73:17;...
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AND NO MAN HATH ASCENDED INTO HEAVENS - No man, therefore, is
qualified to speak of heavenly things, John 3:12. To speak of those
things requires intimate acquaintance with them - demands that we have...
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II. ETERNAL LIFE IMPARTED:
What it is and What it Includes
Chapter 2:23-17
The second part of this Gospel contains the blessed teachings the Son
of God gave concerning eternal life, how it is impart...
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THE CONVERSATION WITH NICODEMUS. Nicodemus is an example of those to
whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to
bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer conce...
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FOR NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT CAME DOWN... THE
SON OF MAN WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
No man has gone to heaven and returned to bear witness of heavenly
things and the counsels of God. Th...
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Do not be surprised that I said to you: "You must be reborn from
above. The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but
you do not know whence it comes and whither it goes. So is every...
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THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
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AND, &c. The _kai_ (= And) here is. Hebraism, and does not mark the
actual transition. There is nothing whatever in the context to show
where the Paragraph breaks should be in this chapter; either in...
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John 3:1-21. The discourse with Nicodemus
This is the first of the eleven discourses of our Lord which form the
main portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel.
They have been u...
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John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work
We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the
Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among
_Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
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_no man hath ascended up to heaven_ No man has been in heaven, so as
to see and know these heavenly things, excepting Christ.
_came down from heaven_ Literally, out of _heaven_; at the
Incarnation. O...
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John 3:1-21. THE DISCOURSE WITH NICODEMUS
This is the first of the discourses of our Lord which form the main
portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel. They
have been used as a...
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ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ�. No one has been in heaven, so as to see and know
these ἐπουράνια, excepting the Son of Man (see on John
1:51). There is probably no direct reference to the Ascension. ἘΚ
Τ. ΟΥ̓Ρ. OUT OF _hea...
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VER 13. AND NO MAN HAS ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT CAME DOWN
FROM HEAVEN, EVEN THE SON OF MAN WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
AUG. After taking notice of this lack of knowledge in a person, who,
on the str...
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_JESUS AFFIRMS HIS DEITY -- JOHN 3:9-21:_ Nicodemus did not yet
understand that if it is true that Jesus is God in the flesh that
man's obligation was to obey him. Jesus proved His Divinity by saying,...
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IF I HAVE TOLD YOU EARTHLY THINGS,— "If you believe not these
obvious truths concerning the spiritual nature of God's kingdom, and
the qualifications of his subjects, how shall you believe the more
su...
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EARTHLY MYSTERIES COMPARED WITH HEAVENLY MYSTERIES
_Text 3:9-15_
9
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Isra...
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EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
John 3:9-21
We begin with an Analysis of the passage which is before us:—
"Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?" (John
3:9). How this revea...
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And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
AND NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT CAME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN, EVEN THE...
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1 We have found an unholy temple, an unspiritual priesthood, and now
we are introduced to an ignorant teacher! Intense application to a
single text book for a whole life had not taught him the element...
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ASCENDED] This word is not to be taken quite literally. Our Lord only
means that He had been in heaven before His Incarnation, and hence
could speak of heavenly things (i.e. the Father's most secret
c...
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THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS
1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though
disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had
made an impression, n...
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JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS
GOSPEL OF JOHN
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 3
JESUS TEACHES NICODEMUS 3:1-21
V1-2 A *Jewish leader called Nicodemus came to speak to Jesus.
Nicodemus was a *Pharis...
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AND NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP. — There can be no other means of
receiving heavenly truth. No man hath learnt it, and is able to teach
it, except the Son of Man, who ever was, and is, in heaven. The
thou...
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CHAPTER 8
THE BRAZEN SERPENT.
“Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and
understandest not these things? Ver...
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καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν … καταβάς. The
connection is: You have not believed earthly things, much less will
you believe those which are heavenly; for not only are they in their
own nature more difficult...
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LOVE'S GREAT GIFT: RECEIVED OR REJECTED
John 3:9-21
Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the
heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them.
Notic...
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Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of
Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to
investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because h...
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And no (k) man (l) hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down
from heaven, [even] (m) the Son of man which (n) is in heaven.
(k) Only Christ can teach us heavenly things, for no man ascends, e...
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No man hath ascended --- but he that descended from heaven, the Son of
man, who is in heaven. These words, divers times repeated by our
Saviour, in their literal and obvious sense, shew that Christ wa...
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CHAPTER 8
REGENERATION THE GREAT SINE QUA NON
John 3:1-21. _“There was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; the same came to Him by night, and
said, Master, we know...
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In opposition to the doctorate of the letter, devoid of all spiritual
intuition, Jesus announces to him the coming of a teaching, which will
rest on the immediate knowledge of the truth (John 3:11). I...
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ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
XIII.
1. At John 3:11, Jesus makes a step in advance in the discourse, and
now assumes in a more formal way the position of the teacher of this
teacher. He de...
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VER. 13. “ _And no one hath ascended up to heaven except he who
descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven._ ”
The question, “ _how will you believe?_ ” (John 3:12) implied, in
the thought...
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Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10)
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and
knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, W...
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The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject
which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the
most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
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13._No one hath ascended to heaven. _He again exhorts Nicodemus not to
trust to himself and his own sagacity, because no mortal man can, by
his own unaided powers, enter into heaven, but only he who g...
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But there was a man (chapter 3) and that a Pharisee who was not
satisfied with this inoperative conviction. His conscience was
reached. Seeing Jesus, and hearing His testimony, had produced a sense
of...
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AND NO MAN HATH ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN,.... Though Enoch and Elias had,
yet not by their own power, nor in the sense our Lord designs; whose
meaning is, that no man had, or could go up to heaven, to bri...
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And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, _even_ the Son of man which is in heaven.
Ver. 13. _And no man hath ascended, &c._] Objection. Therefore all
but Christ are s...
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_If I have told you earthly things_ As the truths which I have taught
you concerning the spiritual nature of God's kingdom, and the
qualifications of his subjects, may properly be termed, because they...
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HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN; learned heavenly things by actual presence
there, and come down from that world to reveal them.
SON OF MAN; Jesus Christ.
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN; whose proper dwelling-place...
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The witness from above:...
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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 di...
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NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH
(vs.1-21)
Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however
one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the
Lord by night, evident...
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1-8 Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ,
therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there
are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him
welco...
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OLBGrk;
No man hath so ascended up to heaven, as to know the secret will and
counsels of God, for of such an ascending it must be meant; otherwise,
Elijah ascended up to heaven before our Saviour asce...
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Tertullian Against Praxeas
It is the Son, too, who ascends to the heights of heaven,[426]
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments
7. If, again, he allege His own word when He said, "I and th...
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John 3:13 G2532 one G3762 ascended G305 (G5758) to G1519 heaven G3772
but G1508 down G2597 ...
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“And no man has ascended into Heaven, but he who descended out of
Heaven, even the Son of Man who is in Heaven.”
In Proverbs 30:4 the question is asked, “Who has ascended up into
heaven and descended?...
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John 3:13. AND NO ONE HATH ASCENDED UP INTO HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT CAME
DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN, THE SON OF MAN. The connection is this: ‘How
will ye believe if I tell you the heavenly things? And it is from...
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It is of much importance to keep the closing verses of chap. 2 in
close connection with the opening verses of chap. 3 (see the
commentary on John 3:1). Rejected by the theocracy of Israel Jesus
turns...
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BUT HE THAT DESCENDED OUT OF HEAVEN
(ε μη ο εκ του ουρανου καταβας). The
Incarnation of the Pre-existent Son of God who was in heaven before he
came down and so knows what he is telling about "the...
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SON OF MAN
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _...
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John 3:13
Resurrection the Key to the Life of Christ.
Resurrection is the natural, inevitable issue of the life of the Man
of Sorrows, the Lord of glory. Unless the universal life is one great
traged...
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John 3:13. _And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that come
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven._
We are in the stairway now between heaven and earth; Christ has came
dow...
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John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler
of the Jews: 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...
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If you were sent for to visit a dying man, and you wished to select a
chapter which would set the truth before him very briefly and very
clearly, you could not make a better choice than this 3 rd chap...
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If we were asked to read to a dying man who did not know the gospel,
we should probably select this chapter as the most suitable one for
such an occasion; and what is good for dying men is good for us...
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If you were called in to see a person who was dying, and wished to
read a chapter from the Word of God, and you were afraid that the sick
one did not know the way of salvation, you could not select a...
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John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler
of the Jews: 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...
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We can scarcely find a chapter in which the gospel lies so compact and
so plainly stated.
John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler
of the Jews:_
Christ's door is open at...
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Let us once more read together part of this blessed soul-saving
chapter. I suppose that more souls have been saved through the reading
of this chapter than through almost any other portion of Holy Wri...
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This is a very wonderful chapter, because, while it teaches the
doctrine of regeneration, and the necessity of a great moral and
spiritual change, it yet also reveals the doctrine of salvation by
fait...
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CONTENTS: Nicodemus and the new birth. The last testimony of John the
Baptist.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Nicodemus, John the Baptist,
Moses, John's disciples.
CONCLUSION: Since the natural...
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John 3:1. _Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews._ This rabbi is named by
John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the
crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Chris...
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EXCEPT THE SON OF MAN. Over eighty times in the Gospels, Jesus calls
himself "Son of Man," emphasizing his humanity (compare Hebrews
2:14-15). The things he was doing declared him to be the Son of God...
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_No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven_
CHRIST COMFORTING NICODEMUS
Christ having reproved Nicodemus for his ignorance, now shows the
remedy thereof in Himself.
1. Ch...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 3:13 ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN probably means
“entered into God’s heavenly council and remained there.” When
Jesus DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN he did not lose all fellowship with the
Father. Ra...
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CHAPTER 3
_There was a man_, &c. Nicodemus means in Greek _the conqueror of the
people._ Such was this man; who, overcoming the fear of the people,
the Pharisees, and the priests, believed in Ch...
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_And no man hath ascended_, &c. _And_ is put instead of _however._ The
meaning is, Ye do not believe Me, and yet no other person hath
ascended into heaven, and there beheld the things which I declare,...
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_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_
John 3:1. In John 2:23, we read of many who believed in Jesus because
of the miracles He wrought. But their belief was so imperfect that
Jesus had “no faith” in it. He...
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EXPOSITION
This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this
evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated,
hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an unfriend...
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Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John
chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed!
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews
(John 3:1).
We k...
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1 Corinthians 15:47; Acts 2:34; Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 30:12;...
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And [κ α ι]. Note the simple connective particle, with nothing to
indicate the logical sequence of the thought.
Hath ascended. Equivalent to hath been in. Jesus says that no one has
been in heaven ex...
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THE NEW BIRTH
John 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The story of Nicodemus is common to us all, and yet there is, perhaps,
much in it which needs to be emphasized, and there may be some things
hidden away th...
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SALVATION MADE PLAIN
John 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We are using the story of Nicodemus as the basis of our message for
today. However, we are planning to bring out some very vital
considerations whic...
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For no one — For here you must rely on my single testimony, whereas
there you have a cloud of witnesses: Hath gone up to heaven, but he
that came down from heaven. Who is in heaven — Therefore he is
o...
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How could Christ say no one has ascended to heaven when Elijah had?
PROBLEM: Jesus declared in this text that “No one has ascended to
heaven…” However, the OT records Elijah’s ascension into heaven
i...
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Here our Saviour declares to Nicodemus, That none ever ascended up
into heaven, to fetch down from thence the knowledge of divine
mysteries, and to reveal the way of life and salvation to mankind by....