Bible Commentaries
John 3

Verse 1

Joh 3:1

John 3:1

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:—Nicodemus was a member of the council of the Sanhedrin. The Pharisees were the most strenuous sect of the Jews in observing the traditions of the elders. [Jesus charged that they made the commands of God of no effect by their traditions. (Matthew 15:3). They were the most popular sect of Judaism in the days of Christ. They believed in the resurrection. Nicodemus is mentioned (John 7:51) as insisting to the Jews that “our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?” He (John 19:39) brought a hundred pounds mixture of myrrh and aloes to anoint the body of Jesus. The notices we have of him indicate that he was a just and true man.]

Verses 1-21

Joh 3:1-21

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus - John 3:1-21

Open It

1. *When have you felt like you wanted to start life all over again?

2. Why do people like to get new things (such as clothes, cars, or gadgets)?

3. What is the best gift you have ever received?

Explore It

4. To what group did Nicodemus belong? (John 3:1)

5. At what time did Nicodemus visit Jesus? (John 3:2)

6. Why did Nicodemus believe Jesus was from God? (John 3:2)

7. What is the qualification for seeing the kingdom of God? (John 3:3)

8. What did Nicodemus think Jesus meant when He said that a person must be born again? (John 3:4)

9. *What is required to enter the kingdom of God? (John 3:5-6)

10. How did Jesus compare the wind to the Spirit? (John 3:8)

11. Why should Nicodemus have understood what Jesus said? (John 3:10)

12. About what category of things did Jesus say He was talking? (John 3:12)

13. Who did Jesus say had gone to heaven? (John 3:13)

14. How did Jesus compare Moses’ snake with the Son of Man? (John 3:14)

15. *What is the result of believing in the Son of Man? John (John 3:15; J 3:18)

16. How did God demonstrate His love for the world? (John 3:16)

17. *Why did God send His Son into the world? (John 3:17)

18. How does the person who lives by truth respond to the light? (John 3:19-21)

Get It

19. When would you say you were born again?

20. *How would you describe what it means to be born again to someone?

21. What were some of the circumstances that led you to Jesus?

22. What were some of the things that caused you to believe that Jesus is the Son of God?

23. Why are spiritual truths often hard to understand?

24. What are a few spiritual truths that you struggle to understand?

25. *How does God’s gift of His Son affect our lives?

26. How can a person live by the light?

Apply It

27. How will you change your daily routine to better appreciate and enjoy God’s gift of His Son?

28. *For what specific spiritual truths will you seek answers this week?

Verse 2

Joh 3:2

John 3:2

the same came unto him by night,—[Why he came at night is a guess of no value. Possibly he desired to avoid pub­licity, or he found Jesus more at leisure; possibly he had more leisure himself.]

and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.—The object of miracles was to con­vince the people that God was with or in those who wrought them and to give assurance to the people that when they heard him they heard God. The person acted and spoke by the authority of God. He came to Jesus that he might learn the will of God. Jesus had come and had given a number of signs or worked miracles that attracted the attention of the observant and thought­ful. Nicodemus was an honest, sincere Pharisee, a ruler and teacher among the Jews, who saw and heard these things. A person’s working miracles was the token of a new message from the Father. Nicodemus came to Jesus modestly to inquire the meaning of the miracles and what truths they heralded.

Verse 3

Joh 3:3

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,—[Jesus at once assumes he is anxious to know of the kingdom that John had preached which was now at hand, and which Jesus came to establish, and at once tells the leading condition of entrance into that kingdom. Without entrance into it citizenship and privileges cannot be enjoyed. The condition was:]

Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.—God whom Jesus set forth on earth was the subject uppermost in the teachings of Jesus, and he at once responded that no person could enter into the kingdom without being born again. Jesus recognized Nicodemus as of the best of the Jews, was looking for the coming Messiah, and yet he needed to be born again to enter the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God was a more spiritual institution, a higher degree of spirituality being required to enter this kingdom than was required for mem­bership in the Jewish kingdom. A fleshly birth introduced man into the Jewish kingdom and it was a fleshly kingdom. The kingdom introduced by Jesus was a spiritual kingdom entered by a birth of the Spirit and spiritual relations prevailed in that kingdom. Some interpreters say this means born from above. While the word translated “anew” may mean “from above,” the context here shows plainly that Jesus meant “anew." With­out he is born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God. The word “born” in this connection cannot be literal; but what is meant by “born anew” is essential to entrance into the kingdom of God.

Verse 4

Joh 3:4

John 3:4

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?—He took it literally, and seeing the impossibility of such a thing he asks, “How can this be when he is old?”

can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?—This had been foretold by the prophets (Joel 3:1-21; Jeremiah 31:31), and Jesus seemed to take it for granted that Nico­demus would understand him. But his mind only recurs to the fleshly kingdom and he could not see how an old man could enter his mother’s womb and be born again.

Verse 5

Joh 3:5

John 3:5

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the king­dom of God.—Men were being baptized by John, and by way of suggestion, he added he must be born of water and the Spirit. This new birth carries with it more than is usually attached to it. It was addressed to Nicodemus and regarded as one of the truest and most faithful of the teachers under the law of Moses—one ready to accept Jesus as the teacher from God. Jesus tells him, for him or any one to enter the kingdom of heaven, he must be born anew. Nicodemus was not in the kingdom of heaven. He was a subject of the Jewish law, which only made them servants or slaves, and he must be born into a higher and better. The kingdom of heaven was to be a spiritual kingdom. In it the Spirit of God was to abide and rule. It had not done this in the Jewish kingdom. In this kingdom those who had been servants were to possess a higher measure of the Spirit of God by which they were to become sons of God. He here tells that the birth, instead of being from the mother’s womb, is from the water and the Spirit. They are the agents and instruments in producing the birth. The Spirit is living, active; the water is

inanimate. The Spirit is the active agent, the water the instru­ment of the birth. On the day of Pentecost the Spirit spoke through the apostles—produced faith in the hearts of the people. “They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.” The coming forth from the water of him who had believed through the teaching of the Spirit was the birth of the water and the Spirit as exemplified in the practice of the apostles. To this the whole religious world has always agreed until of late a few from partisan motives call it in question. [This last statement is sanc­tioned by J. R. Graves, editor, The Tennessee Baptist, as follows: “If Brother Vaughn convinced us that born of water refers to anything but the baptism of one previously born of the Spirit, we never knew it, and we would have owned it to him and to our readers. It means nothing else, and no Baptist that we ever heard or read of ever believed otherwise until A. Campbell fright­ened them away from an interpretation that is sustained by the consensus of all scholars of all denominations in all ages.”—(The Tennessee Baptist, page 5, October 30, 1886.”)]

Verse 6

Joh 3:6

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.—It is the fleshly part of man that is born of the flesh, of his father and his mother; but it is the spirit within man that must be born or begotten of the Spirit. He is removing the difficulty in the mind of Nicodemus about the possibility of being born again.

Verse 7

Joh 3:7

John 3:7

Marvel, not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.—He tells him not to wonder, or think it impossible, that he said, “Ye must be born anew.” All this is directing to the point that it is not the fleshly body that is to be changed and brought forth by the mother, but that it is the spirit of man that is the subject of this birth.

Verse 8

Joh 3:8

John 3:8

The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.—These verses have been ever of great difficulty because men try to get out of them what is not in them. Flesh in the mind of Nico­demus is the difficulty Jesus is trying to remove. He introduces the wind and its blowing which cannot be seen. It blows where it will, no one can know by seeing whence it comes or whither it goes, and then he says the one born of the Spirit is like this. That is, it is the spirit of man unseen like the wind and not the flesh, that is to be begotten of the Spirit of God. The effort was to show Nicodemus that it was the spiritual part of man, not the fleshly part that is to be born again. The man which is born, or begotten, of the Spirit is not the fleshly man that you can see, but the intangible, spiritual part of man—the spirit, invisible, like the wind. The Spirit that begets is not compared to the wind, but the invisible spirit—inner man—that is, born of the Spirit is like the wind—invisible.

Verse 9

Joh 3:9

John 3:9

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?—He seems not to readily take in how one must be born to enter the kingdom of God. He considered himself al­ready in the kingdom of God. He thought he had been born into it by fleshly birth as a member of the family of Abraham. So he asked, “How can these things be?”

Verse 10

Joh 3:10

John 3:10

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?—Jesus shows that he thinks a teacher of the Jews should understand these simple truths. It had been taught by the prophets of the Jewish law that a new principle would be introduced. (Jeremiah 31:31-33). Under the figure of the birth of water and the Spirit this change in the character of the subjects of the kingdom of heaven is told.

Verse 11

Joh 3:11

John 3:11

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.—Jesus was a witness from God of those things he taught and yet his teaching was not received and Nicodemus is slow to accept. It had been foretold by prophets that a kingdom of higher spiritual power should be established on earth and a teacher like Nicodemus should know it. The great end of Jesus in this conversation was to teach Nicodemus to enter the kingdom of heaven. He must enter into a higher spiritual state than the Jews or others on earth had enjoyed. He could be a child of God, could call him Father, would have his sins forgiven once and forever, washed away by the blood of Christ, not rolled forward as was done under Moses. Among the Jews they were servants, slaves; under Christ they must be children of God, must draw near to God as a Father, and he would love and bless them as his children. He must pre­pare for a closer walk with God in the kingdom of heaven than men had hitherto known. This was the leading end and thought of this talk with Nicodemus. Do we read it to get this thought out of it? Or do we read it to prove that baptism is a birth, a bringing forth from the water; that baptism puts us into Christ; that without baptism we cannot enter Christ or receive the bless­ings to be enjoyed in Christ—the forgiveness of sins and the privi­leges of the Lord’s blessings? This conversation illustrates and emphasizes these truths, but they do it only incidentally. The main truth he was emphasizing was the higher honors and chiefest glories of the kingdom of heaven over the honors and glories of all other kingdoms on earth, human or divine. To understand and appreciate this truth was needful to induce all, especially Jews, to leave these kingdoms of "less glory” and to seek the more glorious kingdom of heaven. Not only did Jesus hold up the transcendent beauties of the kingdom of heaven in its purer life and holier privileges and honors and insist on the purer life and more godly walk to fit them for this, but all the apostles and inspired teachers from that time forward insist on this superior life to fit them for the closer walk with God.

Verse 12

Joh 3:12

John 3:12

If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?—What he tells them pertains to the kingdom of God here on earth and their relation to it. If ye do not receive this how shall ye believe when I unfold to you the eternal things of the heavenly land?

Verse 13

Joh 3:13

John 3:13

And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that de­scended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.—No one else than Jesus who came down from heaven is com­petent to teach these things. He calls himself the Son of man, leaving his works to declare him to be the Son of God. His home or citizenship is in heaven. This was written after his ascension.

Verse 14

Joh 3:14

John 3:14

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;—When the Is­raelites had murmured in the wilderness against Moses and against God on account of the difficulties and trials of the way, they had as a punishment been bitten by fiery serpents and they died. The people came to Moses, confessed their sins and asked Moses to pray for them that they might be healed. Moses prayed for them and God told him to make a brazen serpent and put it on a pole and all who looked upon it should live. (Numbers 21:9). This seems to have been given as a test of their faith in Moses. God has in all ages demanded that man’s faith shall express itself in a bodily act. This was the type of Jesus being lifted up on the cross that man might be drawn to him in his service and be saved.

Verse 15

Joh 3:15

John 3:15

that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.—Jesus was lifted up [on the cross] and slain that he might be buried and rise again that men might believe on him. “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things.” (John 8:28). “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.” (John 12:32). The lift­ing up was the killing according to the prophecies concerning him. He died [lifted from the earth to the cross] that he might rise again “Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; even Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 1:4). This believ­ing in him on these testimonies led them to so follow him as with him to enjoy life eternal. Looking upon the serpent was the expression required in this instance and it is given here as an illustration of the sinner looking to Christ for salvation. The test of his faith is that he is baptized into Christ. Being baptized into Christ was the birth of water and the Spirit into the king­dom of God.

Verse 16

Joh 3:16

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be­gotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish,—God showed his love to the world, to free man, the head of the world, by giving his Son to die for the world. He showed his hatred of sin by giving his Son to die for the sins of the world that man might be delivered from the dominion and pen­alty of sin. God loved man despite his rebellion and sin, and so loved him that he gave his Son to die to save man from the result of his rebellion against God. That the death of Jesus so satisfied the law that God “might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3:26). He at the same time showed man his love to him to excite in man a corresponding love to God. “We love, because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19). If we love God we will keep his com­mandments. “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:3). “Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.” (Revelation 22:14).

but have eternal life.—And being freed from sin that sep­arates from God and brings death they become the heirs of eternal life with God. Faith in Christ leads man to follow him that he may have life eternal. It does not mean a faith alone that does not lead to obedience. A dead faith will not bring everlasting life. But faith in God through Christ is the great living principle that leads through obedience unto life everlasting.

Verse 17

Joh 3:17

John 3:17

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.—The world was in a state of condemnation before God on account of their sins, and God sent his Son to open the way for their return to God that they might return and be saved. God did not send his Son in the world to condemn the world—they were already in condemnation for their sins. He sent him to save them from their sins—to bring them from under the sentence of condemnation. Those who believed not in Christ were already condemned. He came as a light into the world, and men rejected him because they loved darkness and remain in condemnation or under judgment. In coming to Christ a man makes his own works manifest as wrought in God through Christ.

Verse 18

Joh 3:18

John 3:18

He that believeth on him is not judged:—When he speaks of believing on him he means an active, living faith that works through love and is perfected by obedience to him in whom he believes. Jesus having come, he has provided that through faith in him man might come to God and be saved. So those who believed in him were not under judgment.

he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.—Those who refused to believe in Christ were under con­demnation before he came and his coming had given better opportunities for believing and their condemnation was the more severe because of their greater opportunities.

Verse 19

Joh 3:19

John 3:19

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.—The coming of Jesus and the addi­tional light he shed abroad showed more clearly that they loved darkness rather than the light, and he teaches that their love for darkness was because their deeds were evil and they did not wish their deeds exposed to and tested by the light.

Verse 20

Joh 3:20

John 3:20

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.—Those who do evil of choice show that they hate the light and truth and seek to cover the exposure of their deeds that the light would make.

Verse 21

Joh 3:21

John 3:21

But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.—Those who live according to the truth love the light and rejoice in it that their works may be justified by the light of truth.

Verse 22

Joh 3:22

John 3:22

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.—The foregoing conversation occurred in Jerusalem. Jesus then went into the country of Judea and tarried in the country and baptized. Jesus baptized through his disciples. (John 4:2).

Verses 22-36

Joh 3:22-36

John the Baptist’s Testimony About Jesus - John 3:22-36

Open It

1. How would you feel if a friend received more recognition than you for something you both did?

2. *What makes someone’s testimony about an event seem either credible or incredible?

Explore It

3. What did Jesus do with His disciples in the Judean countryside? (John 3:22)

4. What was John doing at Aenon? (John 3:23)

5. What eventually happened to John? (J 3:24)

6. What took place between John’s disciples and some Jews? (John 3:25)

7. What news did John receive? (John 3:26)

8. What did John say a person can receive? (John 3:27)

9. *Who did John say he was, as well as who he wasn’t? (John 3:28)

10. How did John describe his feelings about Jesus becoming more important than him? (John 3:29)

11. What did John say about his future status? (John 3:30)

12. *What did John say about Jesus’ future status? (John 3:30)

13. Who is above all? (John 3:31)

14. What did Jesus come to say? (John 3:32)

15. *What did the people do who accepted Jesus’ testimony? (John 3:33)

16. What did the person whom God sent do? (John 3:34)

17. What has the Father done for the Son? (John 3:35)

18. What is the result of either believing or rejecting the Son? (John 3:36)

Get It

19. In what way do people only receive what is given to them from God?

20. *Why is it sometimes hard to give God credit?

21. How are we like John?

22. What are some areas in which you struggle with being humble?

23. *How can we certify that God is truthful in our lives?

24. How would you describe your relationship with Jesus?

25. How does a person reject the Son?

26. What are the consequences of rejecting the Son?

Apply It

27. *How can you give Jesus the place of prominence He deserves in your life today?

28. What can you do this week to show that God is truthful in your life?

29. In what area of your life will you ask God to help you to be more humble?

Verse 23

Joh 3:23

John 3:23

And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim,—There has been some dispute as to where Aenon was. It is now generally accepted that it was in Samaria, due east of the city of Samaria, about midway between it and the Jordan.

because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.—The water was needed for purifying the mul­titudes that attended the preaching of John as well as to fur­nish facilities for baptizing the people who came and were baptized.

Verse 24

Joh 3:24

John 3:24

For John was not yet cast into prison.—Although Jesus was now teaching, had begun his public ministry and through his disciples was baptizing, John was not yet cast into prison and was still teaching. Both Jesus and John were teaching at the same time.

Verse 25

Joh 3:25

John 3:25

There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purifying.—John taught the bap­tism of repentance unto the remission of sins. Jesus was teaching the same, and out of this grew some reasonings on the subject of purifying.

Verse 26

Joh 3:26

John 3:26

And they came unto John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth,—The questionings were brought to John whom they addressed as Rabbi, a reverential term applied to a divine teacher, and in the con­versation some of his disciples in a seemingly complaining spirit told him that Jesus whom he baptized on the east side of the Jordan and to whom he had borne witness as the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world was bap­tizing and the masses of the people were following him.

and all men come to him.—They seem to have grown some­what jealous that the masses were leaving John to follow Jesus.

Verse 27

Joh 3:27

John 3:27

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, ex­cept it have been given him from heaven.—However his dis­ciples may have regarded it. there was no feeling of jealousy with him. He had to bear witness of Jesus as the Messiah that was to come so he assured them, “what I am, and he is given us from heaven, is in accordance with the will of God.”

Verse 28

Joh 3:28

John 3:28

Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.—He had from the beginning testified that he was not the Christ, but is his mes­senger and sent before him to make ready for his coming.

Verse 29

Joh 3:29

John 3:29

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice:—He explains his relation to Jesus by that of the friend of the bridegroom. He stands so related to Christ.

this my joy therefore is made full.—The friend of the bride­groom rejoices at the joy and success of the bridegroom so the joy of John was completed or filled in the success of Jesus.

Verse 30

Joh 3:30

John 3:30

He must increase,—He in this work is permanent and must continually grow. The kingdom he came to set up will become a great mountain, fill the whole earth, and stand for­ever. (Daniel 2:44).

but I must decrease.—John was preparing for Jesus, his work would soon be swallowed up in that of the greater one that he introduced.

Verse 31

Joh 3:31

John 3:31

He that cometh from above is above all:—The suprem­acy of Jesus over John is shown by their origin. Jesus came from heaven and was with the Father before the world was.

he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh:—John was from the earth and speaks as of the earth.

he that cometh from heaven is above all.—He who came from heaven is above all, the leader sent from God.

Verse 32

Joh 3:32

John 3:32

What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth his witness.—Jesus who came from heaven testifies what he heard in heaven and the world did not believe him. The next sentence shows that this was not to be received as literally true.

Verse 33

Joh 3:33

John 3:33

He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true.—While but few received him, he who did receive him confessed in his heart that God is true.

Verse 34

Joh 3:34

John 3:34

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:—Jesus sent from God spoke the words he had heard from God. As a reason for this, he says:

for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.—God gave the Spirit in its fullness without measure to Jesus the Messiah. To all others, apostles, and prophets God gave his Spirit by measure or in modified portions.

Verse 35

Joh 3:35

John 3:35

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.—God loved the Son and the Son sought only to do the will of God so he gave all things of this world into the hands of the Son. Jesus said, “All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.” (Matthew 28:18). And “He that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” (John 13:20).

Verse 36

Joh 3:36

John 3:36

He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life;—He who believes on Jesus so as to give himself up to the guidance of Jesus is an heir of eternal life because being led by the Son of God brings eternal life.

but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.—He who does not trust and follow God will never see the eternal life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

Questions on John Chapter Three

E.M. Zerr

1. What official position did Nicodemus hold?

2. To what sect did he belong?

3. When did he come to Jesus?

4. What reason is given for this?

5. By what title did he address Jesus?

6. What knowledge did he profess?

7. On what did he base it?

8. On what matter did he come?

9. Did he ask about it?

10. Account for the statement of Jesus.

11. Of what birth did Nicodemus boast?

12. Of what advantage is that fact now?

13. Tell what is required.

14. What did he think Jesus meant?

15. Tell what additional words Jesus used.

16. Did Nicodemus still misunderstand?

17. Why did he marvel?

18. State the illustration Jesus used.

19. Do we understand all about the wind?

20. Do we accept the fads notwithstanding?

21. Tell what else he should have accepted.

22. Did he accept the illustration?

23. What should have qualified him to understand?

24. On what basis did Jesus speak?

25. What things did Jesus say he had told him?

26. What were those "earthly things"?

27. If he believes not these, then what?

28. What must precede the descension?

29. Who only could do this?

30. How did Moses typify the Son of man?

31. For what purpose is the antitype?

32. What only son did God give?

33. This proved what of God?

34. State the purpose of this.

35. For what was Christ Jesus sent?

36. Why was that not necessary?

37. How may one escape condemnation?

38. What is sufficient to bring condemnation?

39, Tell what men love.

40. Why is it so?

41. Who hates the light?

42. Tell why he does.

43. What brings others to the light?

44. Into what section did Jesus next come?

45. Tell what he did here with his disciples.

46. Where was John now?

47. Why was he baptizing in this place?

48. What imprisonment is referred to?

49. Distinguish "John’s disciples" and "Jews," in John 3:25.

50. About what did they dispute?

51. What report was brought to John?

52. Was his reaction favorable?

53. From where were all things received?

54. What declaration of his did he then repeat?

55. Who is the bridegroom of John 3:29?

56. Who is his friend?

57. Tell what causes him to rejoice.

58. What about increase and decrease?

59. Identify the first and second "he" in John 3:31.

60. Who is meant in 32nd verse?

61. Receiving his testimony indicates what?

62. Who speaks the words of God?

63. How is he said to receive the Spirit?

64. What has the Father given the Son?

65. Tell what belief brings everlasting life.

66. What abides on the unbeliever?