At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

And knowest

He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh;

We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

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for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities;