Jun 19, 2019
4 min read
Become What You Are
A Reading of John 3, Jesus and Nicodemus
Jesus tells Nicodemus (John 3:1–21) that a person must be born anōthen, a Greek word which can mean “again” but also “from above.” But there’s an additional meaning that I think ties those two together.
Jesus mentions that this (re)birth (from above) is facilitated by water and spirit, a combination which harks back to Genesis 1, a…
