At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

And knowest

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not something physical and external.

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

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For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.