At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children.

"Let them alone. They are blind men leading the blind; and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

In answer Jesus said: "You err because you do not know 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 outward in the flesh;

For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and make our boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in outward rites,

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ's own circumcision,

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"For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.