At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, thou didst reveal them to babes.

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

Jesus answered and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

And knowest

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision, which is outward, in the flesh;

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

in whom also ye have been circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, in putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ,

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For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door will be opened.

And he saith to them, Are ye too so without discernment? Do ye not understand that whatever thing from without entereth into a man, cannot defile him?

And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.