1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’ 8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? 11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. 12 If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. 19 This is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptised. 23 John also was baptising in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came and were baptised; 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison. 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptises, and everyone is coming to him.” 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. 31 “He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
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Nicodemus
A Pharisee and leader of the Jews who came to Jesus at night, later asked the council to hear Jesus before judging him, and brought myrrh and aloes of about seventy-five pounds…
Citado en la guía: John 3:1; John 7:50; John 19:39
Referencias cruzadas (36)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Juan 19:39; Juan 3:10; Juan 7:47–50; Lucas 23:13
- 2 Juan 5:36; Hechos 10:38; Hechos 2:22; Juan 9:30–33; Juan 9:16
- 3 2 Corintios 5:17; Juan 3:5–6; 1 Pedro 1:23–25; 1 Juan 3:9; 1 Juan 5:1
- 4 1 Corintios 2:14; 1 Corintios 1:18; Juan 4:11–12; Juan 3:3; Juan 6:53
- 5 Ezequiel 36:25–27; Efesios 5:26; Hechos 2:38; 1 Pedro 3:21; 1 Corintios 6:11
- 6 Gálatas 5:16–21; Ezequiel 36:26–27; Romanos 8:4–9; 2 Corintios 5:17; 1 Corintios 15:47–50
- 7 Efesios 4:22–24; Juan 3:3; Romanos 12:1–2; 1 Pedro 1:22; Juan 3:12
- 8 Eclesiastés 11:4–5; 1 Corintios 2:11; Hechos 2:2; Ezequiel 37:9; 1 Juan 2:29
- 9 Isaías 42:16; Juan 6:52; Juan 6:60; Lucas 1:34; Juan 3:4
- 10 Mateo 22:29; Jeremías 8:8–9; Ezequiel 11:19; Mateo 15:14; Ezequiel 36:25–27
- 11 Juan 8:38; 1 Juan 5:6–12; Juan 12:49; Juan 8:14; Juan 1:18
- 12 1 Corintios 3:1–2; 1 Corintios 2:7–9; Hebreos 5:11; Juan 3:31–36; 1 Pedro 2:1–3
- 13 Proverbios 30:4; Juan 6:38; Hechos 2:34; Juan 1:18; 1 Corintios 15:47
- 14 Números 21:7–9; Juan 8:28; Juan 12:32–34; Lucas 24:26–27; Lucas 24:44–46
- 15 Juan 3:16; Juan 6:40; 1 Juan 5:11–13; Juan 3:36; Juan 12:44–46
- 16 Romanos 5:8; 1 Juan 4:9–10; Romanos 8:32; Juan 3:15; Juan 11:25–26
- 17 1 Juan 4:14; Lucas 19:10; Juan 12:47–48; Juan 6:57; Juan 6:40
- 18 1 Juan 5:10; Marcos 16:16; Romanos 8:1; Juan 5:24; 1 Juan 5:12
- 19 Juan 8:12; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:12; Juan 9:39–41; Romanos 2:8; Juan 12:43
- 20 Efesios 5:11–13; Juan 7:7; Job 24:13–17; Proverbios 1:29; Proverbios 4:18
- 21 1 Juan 1:6; Salmo 139:23–24; 3 Juan 11; Efesios 5:9; Filipenses 2:13
- 22 Juan 4:1–3; Juan 3:26; Juan 7:3
- 23 Marcos 1:4–5; Lucas 3:7; Ezequiel 43:2; 1 Samuel 9:4; Mateo 3:5–6
- 24 Mateo 4:12; Mateo 14:3; Marcos 6:17; Lucas 3:19–20; Lucas 9:7–9
- 25 Juan 2:6; Mateo 3:11; Hebreos 6:2; Hebreos 9:10; Hebreos 9:23
- 26 Juan 1:7; Santiago 3:14–18; Juan 1:15; Gálatas 6:12–13; Juan 12:19
- 27 Santiago 1:17; 1 Corintios 4:7; 1 Corintios 15:10; 1 Pedro 4:10–11; Amós 7:15
- 28 Juan 1:20; Juan 1:23; Lucas 1:16–17; Mateo 3:11–12; Malaquías 3:1
- 29 Efesios 5:25–27; Isaías 54:5; Oseas 2:19; Mateo 9:15; Ezequiel 16:8
- 30 Colosenses 1:18; Salmo 72:17–19; Hebreos 3:2–6; Isaías 9:7; 1 Corintios 3:5
- 31 Mateo 28:18; Juan 8:23; Romanos 9:5; Juan 6:33; 1 Juan 4:5
- 32 Juan 3:11; Juan 15:15; Juan 1:11; Juan 8:26; Juan 5:20
- 33 Efesios 1:13; Hebreos 6:17; Tito 1:1–2; 2 Corintios 1:18; Romanos 3:3–4
- 34 Hechos 10:38; Mateo 12:18; Juan 15:26; Juan 5:26; Isaías 11:2–5
- 35 Mateo 28:18; Juan 5:20; Lucas 10:22; Juan 5:22; Juan 17:2
- 36 Juan 5:24; Juan 1:12; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:9; Efesios 5:6; Juan 3:15–16
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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We observe, beloved, that the intimation with which we yesterday excited your attention has brought you together with more alacrity, and in greater number than usual; but meanwhile let us, if you please, pay our debt of a discourse on the Gospel Lesson, which comes in due course.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Little children who go daily to their teachers receive their lessons, and repeat them, and never cease from this kind of acquisition, but sometimes employ nights as well as days, and this they are compelled to do for perishable and transient things.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
For Christ also said, "Except ye be born again, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Now, that it is impossible for those who have once been born to enter into their mothers' wombs, is manifest to all.
… that men can be saved in no other way from the old wound of the serpent than by believing in Him who, in the likeness of sinful flesh, is lifted up from the earth upon the tree of martyrdom, and draws all things to Himself, and vivifies the dead.
These I directed, O sweet Truth, to Thy inward melody, pondering on the "fair and fit," and longing to stay and listen to Thee, and to rejoice greatly at the Bridegroom's voice, and I could not; for by the voices of my own errors was I driven forth, and by the weight of my own pride was I sinking into …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)