The Gospel of John – The Spiritual Delivery Room – John 3:1-15

John 3:1-2

Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. ² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

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John 3:2

² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

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John 3:3-5

³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, .”

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you,

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can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.

can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.

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John 3:4

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

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John 3:6

⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. ⁷ You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be ’

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Ezekiel 36:25-27a

²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you…

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John 3:8

⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

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John 3:9

⁹ “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

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John 3:10

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

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John 3:11

¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.

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John 3:12

¹² I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

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John 3:13-15

¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the . ¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

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Numbers 21:5

“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

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Numbers 21:6

“Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.”

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Numbers 21:7

“We sinned… Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.”

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Numbers 21:8–9

 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” ⁹ So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

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Romans 3:23

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

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Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death.”

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Romans 5:12

¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

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John 3:14–15

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

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