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 counsels) from personal experience. Which is in heaven] Some important authorities omit these words, which, if genuine, affirm that our Lord was at the same time on earth and in heaven, in a state of humiliation, and in a state of glory.
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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,...
ΆΝΑΒΈΒΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305) подниматься, восходить. _Perf._ означает: "ни один человек не достигал высоты небес" (Morris), ΕΊ ΜΉ (G1487; G3361) кроме. Так как Он единственный приш...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The witness from above:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John 3:13 G2532 one G3762 ascended G305 (G5758) to G1519 heaven G3772 but G1508 down G2597 ...
“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?...
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...
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...
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...
SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_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,...
1-36 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...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:47; Acts 2:34; Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 30:12;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....