John 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

John 3:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Luke 1:34
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
John 6:52
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John 3:4
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

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Commentary

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 Pharisee…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9-10. How, &c.--Though the subject still confounds Nicodemus, the necessity and possibility of the new birth is no longer the point with him, but the nature of it and how it is brought about [Luthardt]. “From this moment Nicodemus says nothing more, but has sunk unto a disciple who has found his true teacher. Therefore the Saviour now graciously advances in His communications of truth, and once mo…