John 3:10

Jesus answered, ¹  “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things? ² 

De 10:16; De 30:6; 1Ch 29:19; Ps 51:6,10; Ps 73:1; Isa 9:16; Isa 11:6-9; Isa 29:10-12; Isa 56:10; Isa 66:7-9; Jer 8:8,9; Jer 31:33; Jer 32:39,40; Eze 11:19; Eze 18:31,32; Eze 36:25-27; Eze 37:23,24; Mt 11:25; Mt 15:14; Mt 22:29; Ro 2:28; Php 3:3; Col 2:11

¹ tn Grk “Jesus answered and said to him.”

² sn Jesus’ question “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?” implies that Nicodemus had enough information at his disposal from the OT scriptures to have understood Jesus’ statements about the necessity of being born from above by the regenerating work of the Spirit. Isa 44:3-5 and Ezek 37:9-10 are passages Nicodemus might have known which would have given him insight into Jesus’ words. Another significant passage which contains many of these concepts is Prov 30:4-5.