John Chapter 3 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV John 3:10

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?
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BBE John 3:10

And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?
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DARBY John 3:10

Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things!
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KJV John 3:10

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
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WBT John 3:10


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WEB John 3:10

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
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YLT John 3:10

Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and perceivest thou not these things? The term "Israel" is used four times by John (John 1:31, 49; John 12:13; and here). In each place the high dignity, calling, and glory of the nation chosen for the loftiest privilege and destiny are involved. Notice the article, "the Israel" of God. The article before διδάσκαλος gives a high distinction to Nicodemus. Schottgen and Lucke suppose some special office to be here referred to, either the president of the Sanhedrin, or the hakim, or chakam, "the wise man," who sat on his left in the public sessions, or the "father of the house of judgment," who sat on his right; but it may simply mean the teacher of Israel, who has come to me in representative fashion, and who is reminded that he should have been more intimately acquainted with the teaching of his own sacred books (Farrar, 'Life of Christ,' p. 153). Without doubt, the fact of human corruption, and the power of the Spirit of God to renovate, to change utterly down to the very core and heart of human nature, is a great dogma of the Old Testament (cf. Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 Samuel 10:9, where God gave Saul another heart; 1 Samuel 16:13, the effect upon David; David's own prayer, Psalm 51:10; and the great promises of God by Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 36:26; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 31:33). Nicodemus, an illustrious man, a teacher of ethers, presumably acquainted with the teaching of the Scriptures, need not have been in such doubt and amazement at the searching words of Jesus.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Art thou a master of Israel?--Better, Art thou the teacher of Israel? The article is emphatic, and points to the position of Nicodemus as a teacher of repute--"the well-known teacher;" or possibly it is to be understood of the Sanhedrin as represented by him--"Is this the teaching of Israel?" There is something of just indignation here, as everywhere when the words of Jesus Christ are addressed to the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. "You who teach others, have you need to learn the very first lessons of true religion? You who claim to loose and bind men, and place heavy burdens on them which they cannot bear, are you without the simplest real knowledge of what God is, or of what man is? Do teachers of Israel know not these things when they lie beneath every page of the Old Testament Scriptures?"