12If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
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And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. …
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: …
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. …
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one , a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul . Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees ; yet. 1. This was a man of the Phari…
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