Master of Israel; teacher, which he was by virtue of his office as a ruler.
These things; the things relating to the new birth, about which he had been speaking, and which were revealed in the Old Testament, which the Jewish rulers professed to teach. Psalms 51:10; Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26.
Verse John 3:10. _ART THOU A MASTER OF ISRAEL_, c.] Hast thou taken upon thee to guide the blind into the way of truth and yet knowest not that truth thyself? Dost thou command proselytes to be bapti...
A MASTER OF ISRAEL - A “teacher” of Israel; the same word that in the second verse is translated “teacher.” As such a teacher he ought to have understood this doctrine. It was not new,” but was clearl...
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...
ART THOU. MASTER IN ISRAEL, AND KNOWEST NOT THESE THINGS? The question implies that Nicodemus was one of the doctors of the law. These made very arrogant claims of superior knowledge. Christ intends...
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...
ART THOU... ? or Thou art, &c. Not irony. A MASTER. the (famous) teacher; referring to his official position. Greek. _didaskalos._ See App-98. John 3:4. KNOWEST NOT. hast not got to know; or perceiv...
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...
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...
_Art thou a master of Israel_ Better, _art thou_ THE TEACHER _of Israel_, the well-known Rabbi, a representative of the supreme authority in the Church?...
ΣῪ ΕἾ Ὁ ΔΙΔΆΣΚ. _Art thou_ THE TEACHER, a representative of the highest knowledge and supreme authority in the Church? Jesus is astonished at the ignorance of Rabbis, just as He marvelled at the unbel...
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 9. NICODEMUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE? 10. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, ARE YOU A MASTER OF ISRAEL, AND KNOW NOT THESE THINGS? 11. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TO YOU, WE SPEA...
_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,...
Ό ΔΙΔΆΣΚΑΛΟΣ (G1320) учитель. Артикль подчеркивает статус Никодима как великого учителя (Barrett). Это ирония: "знаменитый учитель" не знает такой простой истины (JG). Будучи фарисеем, он принадлежал...
NICODEMUS ANSWERED, &C.— Our Lord's arguments were undeniable: nevertheless, Nicodemus, who had been accustomed to the pomp and ceremony of an external religion, surprised to hear that Jews (who by bi...
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...
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU A MASTER, [ su (G4771) ei (G1487) ho (G3588) didaskalos...
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...
THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impression, n...
'You a teacher in Israel, and this, without which all religion is a dead thing, not known to you!'...
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...
ART THOU A MASTER OF ISRAEL? — Better, _Art thou the teacher of Israel?_ The article is emphatic, and points to the position of Nicodemus as a teacher of repute — “the well-known teacher;” or possibly...
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...
He opens with an exclamation of surprise, Σὺ εἶ ὁ διδάσκαλος τοῦ Ἰσραήλ καὶ ταῦτα οὐ γινώσκεις; perhaps there is more of sadness than either of indignation or irony in the words. Is this the state of...
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 knoweth not these things. That is, of baptism given by in a visible manner, and you understand not, how will you comprehend greater and heavenly things, if I speak of them? (Witham) --- Many pass...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XII. CHAPTER III. The first twenty-one verses of the third chapter contain the account of the interview between Jesus and Nicodemus. This interview occurred d...
“ _Nicodemus answered and said unto him: How can these things be?_ 10. _Jesus answered and said unto him: Thou art the teacher of Israel, and thou knowest not these things!_ ” Nicodemus does not deny;...
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...
10._Thou art a teacher of Israel. _As Christ sees that he is spending his time and pains to no purpose in teaching so proud a man, he begins to reprove him sharply. And certainly such persons will nev...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... Upbraiding him with his continued and invincible ignorance, which was aggravated by his dignified character: ART THOU A MASTER IN ISRAEL? or "of Israel", as all...
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Ver. 10. _Art thou a master, &c._] The Pharisees and philosophers, for their learning, are called "princes...
_Nicodemus answered, How can these things be?_ Christ's explication of the doctrine of regeneration, and its necessity, made it no clearer to him. The corruption of nature, which renders it necessary,...
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU A MASTER OF ISRAEL AND KNOWEST NOT THESE THINGS?...
The witness from above:...
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...
Our Saviour doth not so much wonder at as upbraid the ignorance of Nicodemus, and all of his sect, who went for masters, or teachers, and that in Israel; who had the law and the prophets, and yet were...
Tertullian On Modesty is not of God,"[250] Dubious Hippolytus Fragments and the beloved of Christ, in harmony with him, cries, "The children of the devil are manifest;[34] Cyprian Treatise XII Thr...
John 3:10 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Are G1488 ...
‘ Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?” ' Jesus words are a gentle rebuke. ‘Do you claim to be a teacher (literally ‘the master' - theref...
John 3:10. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU ART THE TEACHER OF ISRAEL; AND PERCEIVEST THOU NOT THESE THINGS? The question which expressed the bewilderment of Nicodemus is answered by another que...
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...
THE TEACHER OF ISRAEL (ο διδασκαλος του Ισραηλ). The well-known or the authorized (the accepted) teacher of the Israel of God. Note both articles.AND UNDERSTANDEST NOT THESE THINGS? (κα ταυτα ου...
A MASTER Literally, Art thou the teacher of Israel, etc....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AND YOU DON'T KNOW THIS? Nicodemus was one who taught others. The Doctors of the Law were very proud of how much they knew. He could not fail to know the prophecy of a _new covenant_ (Jeremiah 31:31-3...
_Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?_ --The truths which Christ came to declare, He did but recall in great measure to minds which had lost the memory of what was from the firs...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 3:10 See Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 31:33; and...
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 Chronicles 29:19; Colossians 2:11; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6;...
Answered and said. See on 2 18. Art thou a master of Israel [σ υ ε ι ο δ ι δ α σ κ α λ ο ς τ ο υ ι σ ρ α η λ]. The su, thou, is emphatic. A master is more correctly rendered by Rev., the teacher. Not...
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...
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...