John 3:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? ”

• John 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If I have told you earthly things - Things which occur on earth. Not sensual or worldly things, for Jesus had said nothing of these; but he had told him of operations of the Spirit which had occu...

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• John 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conversation with Nicodemus. Nicodemus is an example of those to whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer co...

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• John 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  If Ihave. Assuming it as. fact. App-118. earthly things . Eze 36:25-27. 1 Corinthians 15:40 ; Colossians 3:2 ; 2 Corinthians 5:1 . Philippians 1:2 ; Philippians 1:10 ; Philippians 3:19 . b...

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• John 3:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. If I have told you earthly things. Christ concludes that it ought to be laid to the charge of Nicodemus and others, if they do not make progress in the doctrine of the Gospel; for he sho...

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• John 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? If I have told you earthly things - If, after I have illustrated this new birth by a m...

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• John 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If I have told you earthly things,— "If you believe not these obvious truths concerning the spiritual nature of God's kingdom, and the qualifications of his subjects, how shall you believe the more...

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• John 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? If I have told you earthly things, [ ta ( G3588 ) epigeia ( G1919 )],...

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• John 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Birth. John's Testimony to Jesus 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impressio...

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• John 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Earthly things — i.e., things upon earth, having the sphere of their action upon earth. These are not necessarily restricted to the subjects of this interview. The context includes previous witness...

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• John 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 8 THE BRAZEN SERPENT. “Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?...

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• John 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Love's Great Gift: Received or Rejected John 3:9-21 Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them....

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• John 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because...

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• John 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee,...

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• John 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If I have told you earthly things ,.... Not that the doctrines he delivered were earthly ones; for he was not of the earth, but from heaven, and above all, and so spake not of the earth, but of heav...

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• John 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Ver. 12. If I have told you earthly things ] That is, spiritual things under earth...

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• John 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I have told you earthly things As the truths which I have taught you concerning the spiritual nature of God's kingdom, and the qualifications of his subjects, may properly be termed, because the...

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• John 3:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evi...

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• John 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Interview with Nicodemus.       1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:   2 The same came to Jesus...

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• John 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If I have spoken to you plain things, and in a plain style, humbling my phrase to your apprehensions, and illustrating sublime, spiritual mysteries, which in their own nature are more remote from you...

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• John 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 3:1 . In John 2:23-24 , we read of many who believed in Jesus because of the miracles He wrought. But their belief was so imperfect that Jesus had “no faith”...

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• John 3:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 3:1-43 . There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for n...

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• John 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 3:1 . Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews. This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Ch...

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• John 3:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If I have told you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? --The question in its bare form is easily grappled with, but in its application to...

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• John 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an u...

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• John 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The witness from above:

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• John 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:7-9 ; 1 Corinthians 3:1 ; 1 Corinthians 3:2 ; 1 John 4:10 ; 1 Peter 2:1-3 ; 1 Timothy 3:16 ; Hebrews 5:11 ; John 1:1-14 ; John 3:13-17 ; John 3:3 ; John 3:31-36 ; John 3:5...

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• John 3:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The New Birth John 3:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of Nicodemus is common to us all, and yet there is, perhaps, much in it which needs to be emphasized, and there may be some things hidden...

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• John 3:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Earthly things — Things done on earth; such as the new birth, and the present privileges of the children of God. Heavenly things — Such as the eternity of the Son, and the unity of the Father, Son,...

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