At that time Jesus spake and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and the intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes:

Leave them to themselves: they are blind leaders of the blind. But if the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into the pit.

Jesus then answering, said unto them, Ye are in an error, from not knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God.

And knowest

For not he who is outwardly such, is the Jew; neither is that which is outward in the flesh, circumcision.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ:

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for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

And he saith to them, Are ye also so defective of intelligence? Do you not consider, that every thing from without that entereth into a man, cannot make him unclean?

NOW there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: