How would you read these words of Christ...
John 3:5
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Hi Thanks .
One of those things a person keeps on the back burner
I would offer to begin without parables the signified undestanding. Christ spoke not . . comparing as a sign the temporal things seen water as metaphors compared to the unseen the things of faith (belief) Spirit. You could say both working as one .
In several parables Christ uses both water and or with blood, or water and wine The blood of grapes ) the things seen to give the unseen Holy Spiritual.
Again Blood /Water interchangeable no differnce .
John 6 parable Eat flesh drink blood and companion parables .
The gospel a picture to the world.
Christ pouring out His Holy Spirit life as a labor of love as if it was blood like water on the flesh of drying mankind in jeapordy of His own Spirit life. .
The parable David in prisoned in doubt like that of John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit sent a famine for hearing the power of the gospel .Christ sending three to represent the end of a matter to the city of bread (Bethlehem) to represent flesh and draw living water by the gate.
Water changing to blood just a water to wine.
1 Chronicles11: 16-19 And
David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at
Bethlehem.(flesh) And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
water of the well of
Bethlehem, that is at the gate! And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew
water out of the
well of
Bethlehem,(flesh) that was by the gate, and took
it, and brought
it to
David: but
David would not drink of
it, but poured
it out to the Lord. And said, My God forbid
it me, that I should do this thing: shall
I drink the
blood of these men that have put their
lives in
jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their
lives they brought
it. Therefore he would
not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
David knew the prophetic demonstration of Christ pouring out His Spirit was promised to the Son of man, Jesus .
Beautiful
Christmas parable