Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Christ reproves him sharply because such proud men make no progress until their wicked confidence is beaten down. Nicodemus exposes himself to childish hesitation about first principles that ought to be known even to beginners. It is utterly beyond endurance that a man professing to teach in God's Church should be ignorant of what Scripture repeatedly teaches: that man is renewed by the Spirit of God.
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A Pharisee and ruler of the sanhedrim comes to Christ, proof that grace subdues even the greatest opposition. He sought private counsel rather than public hearing, a pattern we should follow: go to faithful ministers about the deep matters of your soul, not content with hearing sermons alone.
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Commenting on John 3:1-21
Christ speaks of what He knows with certainty, as the omniscient God in whom all treasures of wisdom dwell. His testimony ought to carry the full weight of a faithful, seeing witness. Yet the Jews received not His witness, an aggravation of their sin and unbelief.
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