Verš 1
Now there was a man among the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
Jn 19:39 - Now Nicodemus also arrived, (who had gone to Jesus at first by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloe, weighing about seventy pounds.
Verš 2
He went to Jesus at night, and he said to him: “Rabbi, we know that you have arrived as a teacher from God. For no one would be able to accomplish these signs, which you accomplish, unless God were with him.”
Jn 7:50 - Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them,
Jn 19:39 - Now Nicodemus also arrived, (who had gone to Jesus at first by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloe, weighing about seventy pounds.
Jn 9:16 - And so certain Pharisees said: “This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God.” But others said, “How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?” And there was a schism among them.
Jn 9:33 - Unless this man were of God, he would not be able to do any such thing.”
Sk 10:38 - Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, traveled around doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. For God was with him.
Verš 5
Jesus responded: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn by water and the Holy Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.
Tít 3:5 - And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
Verš 6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Rim 8:5 - For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit.
Verš 9
Nicodemus responded and said to him, “How are these things able to be accomplished?”
Jn 6:52 - If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.”
Verš 11
Amen, amen, I say to you, that we speak about what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. But you do not accept our testimony.
Jn 7:16 - Jesus responded to them and said: “My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.
Jn 8:28 - And so Jesus said to them: “When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall realize that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but just as the Father has taught me, so do I speak.
Jn 12:49 - For I am not speaking from myself, but from the Father who sent me. He gave a commandment to me as to what I should say and how I should speak.
Jn 14:24 - Whoever does not love me, does not keep not my words. And the word that you have heard is not of me, but it is of the Father who sent me.
Jn 3:32 - And what he has seen and heard, about this he testifies. And no one accepts his testimony.
Verš 13
And no one has ascended to heaven, except the one who descended from heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven.
Jn 6:62 - But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?
Ef 4:9 - Now that he has ascended, what is left except for him also to descended, first to the lower parts of the earth?
Verš 14
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so also must the Son of man be lifted up,
Nm 21:9 - Therefore, Moses made a bronze serpent, and he placed it as a sign. When those who had been struck gazed upon it, they were healed.
2Kr 18:4 - He destroyed the high places, and he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he broke apart the bronze serpent, which Moses had made. For even until that time, the sons of Israel were burning incense to it. And he called its name Nehushtan.
Jn 8:28 - And so Jesus said to them: “When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall realize that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but just as the Father has taught me, so do I speak.
Jn 12:32 - And when I have been lifted up from the earth, I will draw all things to myself.”
Verš 15
so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
Jn 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”
Verš 16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
Rim 5:8 - But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
Rim 8:31 - So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
1Jn 4:9 - The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
Jn 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”
Lk 19:10 - For the Son of man has come to seek and to save what had been lost.”
1Jn 5:10 - Whoever believes in the Son of God, holds the testimony of God within himself. Whoever does not believe in the Son, makes him a liar, because he does not believe in the testimony which God has testified about his Son.
Verš 17
For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
Lk 9:56 - The Son of man came, not to destroy lives, but to save them.” And they went into another town.
Jn 9:39 - And Jesus said, “I came into this world in judgment, so that those who do not see, may see; and so that those who see, may become blind.”
Jn 12:47 - And if anyone has heard my words and not kept them, I do not judge him. For I did not come so that I may judge the world, but so that I may save the world.
1Jn 4:14 - And we have seen, and we testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Verš 18
Whoever believes in him is not judged. But whoever does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
Jn 5:24 - Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.
Jn 6:40 - So then, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 6:47 - Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life.
Jn 20:31 - But these things have been written, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, in believing, you may have life in his name.
Verš 19
And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.
Jn 1:5 - And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Verš 21
But whoever acts in truth goes toward the Light, so that his works may be manifested, because they have been accomplished in God.”
Ef 5:8 - For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.
Ef 5:13 - But all things that are disputed are made manifest by the light. For all that is made manifest is light.
Verš 22
After these things, Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea. And he was living there with them and baptizing.
Jn 4:1 - And so, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John,
Verš 23
Now John was also baptizing, at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water in that place. And they were arriving and being baptized.
Mt 3:6 - And they were baptized by him in the Jordan, acknowledging their sins.
Mk 1:5 - And there went out to him all the region of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Lk 3:7 - Therefore, he said to the crowd that went out in order to be baptized by him: “You progeny of vipers! Who told you to flee from the approaching wrath?
Verš 24
For John had not yet been cast into prison.
Mt 14:3 - For Herod had apprehended John, and bound him, and put him in prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother.
Verš 26
And they went to John and said to him: “Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you offered testimony: behold, he is baptizing and everyone is going to him.”
Mt 3:11 - Indeed, I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who will come after me is more powerful than me. I am not worthy to carry his shoes. He will baptize you with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Mk 1:7 - And he preached, saying: “A stronger one comes after me. I am not worthy to reach down and loosen the laces of his shoes.
Lk 3:16 - John responded by saying to everyone: “Indeed, I baptize you with water. But there will arrive one stronger than me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit, and with fire.
Jn 1:15 - John offers testimony about him, and he cries out, saying: “This is the one about whom I said: ‘He who is to come after me, has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”
Jn 1:26 - John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.
Jn 1:34 - And I saw, and I gave testimony: that this one is the Son of God.”
Verš 28
You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that I have been sent before him.
Jn 1:20 - And he confessed it and did not deny it; and what he confessed was: “I am not the Christ.”
Mal 3:1 - Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts.
Mt 11:10 - For this is he, of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.’
Mk 1:2 - As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.
Lk 1:17 - And he will go before him with the spirit and power of Elijah, so that he may turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the incredulous to the prudence of the just, so as to prepare for the Lord a completed people.”
Lk 7:27 - This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.”
Jn 1:21 - And they questioned him: “Then what are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
Jn 1:23 - He said, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
Verš 31
He who comes from above, is above everything. He who is from below, is of the earth, and he speaks about the earth. He who comes from heaven is above everything.
Jn 8:23 - And he said to them: “You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
Verš 32
And what he has seen and heard, about this he testifies. And no one accepts his testimony.
Jn 5:30 - I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 8:26 - I have much to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true. And what I have heard from him, this I speak within the world.”
Jn 12:49 - For I am not speaking from myself, but from the Father who sent me. He gave a commandment to me as to what I should say and how I should speak.
Jn 14:10 - Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I am speaking to you, I do not speak from myself. But the Father abiding in me, he does these works.
Verš 33
Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified that God is truthful.
Rim 3:4 - For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”
Verš 34
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the Spirit by measure.
Ef 4:7 - Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ.
Verš 35
The Father loves the Son, and he has given everything into his hand.
Mt 11:27 - All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.
Mt 28:18 - And Jesus, drawing near, spoke to them, saying: “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Lk 10:22 - All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and those to whom the Son has chosen to reveal him.”
Jn 5:22 - For the Father does not judge anyone. But he has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 17:2 - just as you have given authority over all flesh to him, so that he may give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
Heb 2:8 - You have subjected all things under his feet.” For in as much as he has subjected all things to him, he has left nothing not subject to him. But in the present time, we do not yet perceive that all things have been made subject to him.
Verš 36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”
Jn 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
Jn 6:47 - Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life.
1Jn 5:10 - Whoever believes in the Son of God, holds the testimony of God within himself. Whoever does not believe in the Son, makes him a liar, because he does not believe in the testimony which God has testified about his Son.
Jn 3,1 - Zákonník Nikodém bol členom veľrady a príslušníkom strany farizejov. Dobrý človek, ale ešte bojazlivý a dbajúci na svetské ohľady.
Jn 3,3-8 - Tento text má zrejme na mysli sviatosť krstu. V krste dostávame Ducha Svätého, princíp nadprirodzeného, Božieho života. Krstom sa teda človek znovuzrodí.
Jn 3,8 - V gréckom (i hebrejskom) jazyku ten istý výraz "pnéuma" znamená aj vietor, aj Ducha.
Jn 3,10 - V Starom zákone je reč o znovuzrodení z Ducha: Iz 44, 3; 59, 21; Ez 11, 19; 36, 26; Zach 12, 10; Joel 2, 28 a iné.
Jn 3,14 - Mojžišov medený had bol predobrazom ukrižovaného Krista - Nm 21, 8 n.
Jn 3,18 - "V meno" je semitizmus; meno predstavuje osobu.
Jn 3,22 - Ježiš (vlastne jeho učeníci - porov. 4, 2) krstil pri dolnom toku Jordánu, Ján Krstiteľ pri jeho strednom toku, neďaleko Beisanu, asi 20 km južne od Genezaretského jazera. Krst Ježišových učeníkov bol ešte ten istý, aký bol Jánov. Krst "v Duchu" bude až po vzkriesení a oslávení Krista.
Jn 3,29 - Sväté písmo častejšie opisuje láskyplný vzťah medzi Bohom a ľuďmi ako lásku snúbencov - manželov: Iz 54, 4-6; 62, 5; Jer 2, 2; 3, 1-5; Ez 16; Oz 2, 2-20; celá Pieseň piesní. Ježiš je snúbenec, ženích, ktorý sa zasnubuje s Cirkvou (Mt 9, 15; 22, 1 n.; 25, 1 n.; Ef 5, 22; 2 Kor 11, 2; Zjv 19, 7; 21, 2). Ján Krstiteľ je len jeho družbom a teší sa z jeho šťastia a lásky. Tak skromne označil svoju úlohu ako predchodca Mesiáša.
Jn 3,31-36 - Tieto verše sa zdajú byť úvahou samého evanjelistu. V skutočnosti sú to však skôr slová Pána Ježiša, ktoré povedal pri inej príležitosti a Ján ich sem pridal.
