John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? To unconverted persons a great part of the Bible resembles a letter written in cipher. The blessed Spirit's office is to act as God's decipherer, by letting His people into the secret of celestial experience, as the key and clue to those sweet mysteries of grace, which were before as a garden shut up, or as a fountain sealed, or as a book written in an unknown character. (Toplady.) Parallel Verses KJV: Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? |