John 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The wind. The Spirit. The word pneuma, Occurs 385 times, and is rendered "wind" only here. It should be translated Spirit, as at end of verse. "Wind" is anemos. Occurs 31 times, and is always so rendered.

bloweth. breatheth.

it listeth. He willeth. App-102. The

Eng. "listeth" is Old Eng. for Anglo-Saxon lusteth; i.e. pleaseth or desireth.

the sound thereof. His voice.

canst not tell. knowest not. Greek. oida. App-132.

not. Greek. ou. App-105.

is born. has been begotten, as in John 3:6.

the Spirit: completing the Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6),

converting this verse into. most solemn and independent statement of facts.

John 3:8

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.