1 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, 2 this one came unto him by night, and said to him, 'Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come — a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.' 3 Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;' 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, 'How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' 5 Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; 6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 'Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above; 8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.' 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?' 10 Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel — and these things thou dost not know! 11 'Verily, verily, I say to thee — What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive; 12 if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe? 13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down — the Son of Man who is in the heaven. 14 'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up, 15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, 16 for God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. 17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; 18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.' 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing; 23 and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized — 24 for John was not yet cast into the prison — 25 there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying, 26 and they came unto John, and said to him, 'Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.' 27 John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; 28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; 29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. 30 'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; 31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all. 32 'And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth; 33 he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; 34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit; 35 the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; 36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon 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)