The wind blows wherever it wishes. Pendleton says: "I take the passage to mean that the process by which a man is regenerated [born again] by the Spirit of God is no more mysterious than other operations in the natural world, of which operations the blowing of the wind is taken as example." Lipscomb says: "These verses have been ever of great difficulty because men try to get out of them what is not in them. Flesh in the mind of Nicodemus is the difficulty Jesus is trying to remove. The effort was to show Nicodemus that it was the spiritual part of man, not the fleshly part that is to be born again." [Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Galatians 4:6; 1 Peter 1:22-23.]

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