The teacher of Israel (ο διδασκαλος του Ισραηλ). The well-known or the authorized (the accepted) teacher of the Israel of God. Not…

A master of Israel. A teacher of Israel; the same word that in the second verse is translated teacher. As such a tea…

Are you a master of Israel?—Better, Are you the teacher of Israel? The article is emphatic and points to the pos…

Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and do not know these …

Haymo of Auxerre: Nicodemus cannot grasp the mysteries of the Divine Majesty that our Lord reveals, and therefore asks how thi…

The Greek text uses the definite article with “teacher”: “Are you the teacher of Israel?” (lit. tr.). Nicodemus’s exact position in the theological…

Thou art a teacher of Israel. As Christ sees that he is spending his time and effort to no purpose in teaching such a proud man, he begins…

Jesus answered and said to him Upbraiding him with his continued and invincible ignorance, which was aggravated by his di…

1. Above, in His instruction on spiritual generation, the Lord presented a reason; here He gives an example. For we see that Nicodemus was t…