John 3:9

The Message

Nicodemus asked, “What do you mean by this? How does this happen?”

Cross References

Proverbs 4:18

The ways of right-living people glow with light; the longer they live, the brighter they shine. But the road of wrongdoing gets darker and darker— travelers can’t see a thing; they fall flat on their faces.

Luke 1:34

Mary said to the angel, “But how? I’ve never slept with a man.”

John 3:10

Jesus said, “You’re a respected teacher of Israel and you don’t know these basics? Listen carefully. I’m speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes. There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions. If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don’t believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can’t see, the things of God?

John 3:4

“How can anyone,” said Nicodemus, “be born who has already been born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your mother’s womb and be born again. What are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’ talk?”

John 6:52

At this, the Jews started fighting among themselves: “How can this man serve up his flesh for a meal?”

John 6:60

Many among his disciples heard this and said, “This is tough teaching, too tough to swallow.”