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Joh 3:2. Νυκτός, by night) There is never a time that Christ does not receive comers to Him.-οἴδασμεν, we know) I, and those like me: the rulers rather than the Pharisees, ch. Joh 12:42. To this plural answers the plural, Joh 3:7, “Ye must be born again.” The Antecedent is put by Nicodemus as the consequent: For this reason I wished to confer with Thee. He wished to hear as to heavenly things and as to sublime things, Joh 3:12 [but Jesus brings him up to first principles.-V. g.]-[49] σημεῖα, signs) ch. Joh 2:23, “At the passover, on the feast day, many believed on Him when they saw the miracles which He did.”
[49] διδάσκαλος, master, [teacher]) That indeed is true; but it by no means carries with it every point [that is needed for salvation]; ver. 14, 16, “As Moses lifted up the serpent, etc., so must the Son of Man be lifted up, etc.: for God so loved the world, that He gave His Only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish,” etc.-V. g.