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The Holy Spirit and the Wind
The words wind and spirit are the same word in the ancient language. Jesus is talking to a high priest who teaches the turah for a living. Nicodemus doesn't understand how can i be born again? It's impossible. But when jesus uses that metaphor here, maybe you picture a tree whose leaves rustle in the breeze,. That's likely what would have jumped to nic demus mind when he was talking with jesus. And john's gospel uses a word repeatedly for the holy spirit that you won't find in anywhere else in the new testament outside of john's writings and its paraclete. On jesus final night, john 14 16, he