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John 3:8
English Standard Version
John 3:8
English Standard Version
8 (A)The wind[a] blows (B)where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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- John 3:8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
John 3:8
New English Translation
John 3:8
New English Translation
8 The wind[a] blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”[b]
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- John 3:8 tn The same Greek word, πνεύματος (pneumatos), may be translated “wind” or “spirit.”
- John 3:8 sn Again, the physical illustrates the spiritual, although the force is heightened by the word-play here on wind-spirit (see the note on wind at the beginning of this verse). By the end of the verse, however, the final usage of πνεύματος (pneumatos) refers to the Holy Spirit.
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