At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.

Let them alone; they are blind guides; and if a blind man be guiding a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

But Jesus, answering, said to them, "Ye deceive yourselves, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God;

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

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

in Whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

And He saith to them, "Are ye too thus without understanding? Do ye not perceive that nothing, entering into a man from without, can defile him;

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.