John 3:4

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?””

— WEB

“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?”

— KJV

“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother`s womb, and be born?”

— ASV

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Commentary

How, &c.--The figure of the new birth, if it had been meant only of Gentile proselytes to the Jewish religion, would have been intelligible enough to Nicodemus, being quite in keeping with the language of that day; but that Jews themselves should need a new birth was to him incomprehensible.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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