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Jesus' Unique Authority
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse establishes Jesus' unique authority. No human has gone to heaven and returned with divine knowledge. Jesus asserts that He is the exclusive source of truth about God because He alone has 'descended out of heaven.' As scholars like Barnes and Calvin note, this means spiritual truth is a matter of divine revelation from Christ, not human discovery.
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Albert Barnes
On John 3:13
18th Century
Theologian
And no man has ascended into heaven. No man, therefore, is qualified to speak of heavenly things (John 3:12). To speak of thos…
AT Robertson
On John 3:13
But he that descended out of heaven (ε μη ο εκ του ουρανου καταβας). The Incarnation of the Pre-existent Son of God who was in hea…
Charles Ellicott
On John 3:13
19th Century
Bishop
And no man hath ascended up.—There can be no other means of receiving heavenly truth. No man has learned it, and is able …
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 3:13
19th Century
Preacher
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
A riddle, doubtles…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 3:13
The “earthly things” (GK 2103) Jesus alluded to were probably the phenomena he used for illustrations, such as the wind. If Nicodemus was unable to…
John Calvin
On John 3:13
16th Century
Theologian
No one has ascended to heaven. He again exhorts Nicodemus not to trust in himself and his own sagacity, because no mortal man can, by his …
John Gill
On John 3:13
17th Century
Pastor
And no man has ascended into heaven
Though Enoch and Elias had, yet not by their own power, nor in the sense our Lor…