In verses 13 to 15 He says, No one has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven. and, in verse 14 he says, As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.John 3.14-15 At this point, when Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus, the cross has not yet happened. So, He speaks to...
Nicodemus says he doesn’t understand. ‘How can these things be?’ He asks And Jesus said, ‘Well, you should understand what I’m talking about because you’re a teacher of Israel, you’re not one of the am erets (the common people). You should know these things, you should know the scriptures, you should know what God has to say.’ In fact, there are plenty of scriptures in the...
In the Book of Acts chapter 3, Peter is preaching, and he says to the crowd, Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the LordActs 3.19 ‘Repent and be converted’. Converted means to be turned around to turn from going one way to going another way. The Hebrew word for conversion is teshuva which means to turn from...
Tony Pearce spoke on John 3 on 12th December at The Bridge · The attack on the concept of conversion in the government’s proposed Conversion Therapy bill · The meaning of conversion revealed in John 3 · Jewish background to the most well known verse in the Bible (John 3.16) revealed in...