9Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
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Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
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.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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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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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