John 3:10

Jesus gently rebukes Nicodemus for not grasping these truths though he is Israel's teacher. The Scriptures already pointed to the Spirit's renewing work.

Cross-references · 25

• Matt 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
• Jer 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
• Ezek 11:19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
• Matt 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• Ps 73:1A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• Ps 51:6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• Ezek 37:23–24They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
• Isa 9:16For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
• 1 Chr 29:19And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
• Isa 29:10–12For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
• Deut 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
• Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Isa 11:6–9The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
• Isa 66:7–9“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
• Isa 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• Jer 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
• Matt 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
• Rom 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Luke 2:46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
• Col 2:11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

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