Moses lifted up the serpent (Μωυσης υψωσεν τον οφιν). Reference to Nu 21:7ff. where Moses set the brazen serpent upon the standard…

And as Moses. Jesus proceeds in this and the following verses to state the reason why he came into the world. To do this, he illustrates h…

And as Moses lifted up.—This verse is closely connected by the conjunction “and” with what has gone before. Jesus has tau…

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not peri…

St. John Chrysostom: After mentioning the gift of baptism, He moves on to its source, that is, the cross: And as Moses lif…

The reference to a story in the Pentateuch (Numbers 21:4–9) would have been familiar to Nicodemus, for the Jewish scholars spent the la…

And as Moses lifted up the serpent. He explains more clearly why he said that he alone is the one to whom heaven is opened; namely, that h…

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness

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…