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No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
And no man has ascended into heaven. No man, therefore, is qualified to speak of heavenly things (John 3:12). To speak of thos…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And no man has ascended into heaven Though Enoch and Elias had, yet not by their own power, nor in the sense our Lor…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, in His instruction on spiritual generation, the Lord presented a reason; here He gives an example. For we see that Nicodemus was t…
