Israel's Holiest Man Came to Jesus at Night. Jesus Said He Couldn't See the Kingdom. | John 3

Name: Israel's Holiest Man Came to Jesus at Night. Jesus Said He Couldn't See the Kingdom. | John 3
Uploaded: 2026-06-28T01:00:38.000Z
Duration: 22 min 21 s

@sovereignlogos·June 28, 2026

📱 Get the app: Sovereign Logos Complete Bible (free, iOS) Read the Bible the apostles read. The Septuagint and the KJV, side by side, unredacted, with daily readings and audio. No ads, no account, no tracking. 👉 https://sovereignlogos.com/app The most religious man in the country came to Jesus at night, and Jesus told him he could not even see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews, a master of Israel, and the Lord answered his compliment by pulling the floor out from under his whole religion: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Look at the word He chose. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown stop right on it: "a man, not a Jew merely; the necessity is a universal one." The new birth is not a national privilege handed down by blood. There are not two peoples of God on two separate tracks. There is one covenant of grace from the first page, one people, one way home, and the holiest son of Israel had to enter it born from above. Then Jesus reaches into the books of Moses and pulls out the strangest healing in the Old Testament, the bronze serpent lifted in the wilderness, and says, that was Me. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up." And here is the channel's thesis in a single word. Your Bible, following the later Hebrew, says Moses set the serpent on a bare pole. The Greek Old Testament the apostles actually read does not say a bare pole. Ellicott the Anglican concedes it outright: "the LXX have semeion," a sign, a standard, hoisted so the dying camp could look and live. The cross is not a stick in the ground; it is a sign lifted over the whole dying world. Which is why the most famous verse on earth says world, not Israel. Albert Barnes: "the world. All mankind... man as man, the race that had rebelled and that deserved to die." One love for the whole rebel race, one Son lifted up for all of it, and one door, named plainly: "he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Even John the Baptist, the greatest of the prophets, would not let his own God-given honor put the smallest shadow on Christ: "He must increase, but I must decrease." This is Episode 3 of the Gospel of John, read one chapter every day: the full chapter aloud first, then what the church has always seen in it. ▶ Read along at: https://sovereignlogos.com ▶ Yesterday (John 2): https://youtu.be/foulL8qRc8g ▶ Subscribe for tomorrow's chapter: @SovereignLogos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU WILL HEAR • The full text of John 3, every verse, read aloud (KJV). • Born again from above: why "water and the Spirit" is the work of the Holy Ghost, not the rite, with Gill on Simon Magus, baptized and still unsaved. • The new birth is universal, not national: JFB's "a man, not a Jew merely," and why there are not two peoples of God. • The serpent on the standard: your Bible's "pole" against the Septuagint's semeion, a sign lifted up, conceded by Ellicott, in Brenton's Greek. • "God so loved the world": Barnes on the world as "all mankind, man as man," the whole rebel race, and the one name there is no salvation outside of. • "He must increase": the forerunner who refused to share the glory of Christ, and the wrath that abides on all who will not look. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Sovereign Logos publishes the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament quoted by Jesus, the apostles, and the early church fathers, as the unadulterated Scripture. Daily Bible readings, cross-references, the full Webster's 1828 dictionary for every biblical term, and long-form videos on textual history are all free at sovereignlogos.com. Christ is King. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTION • King James Version 1769 Oxford (public domain), chapter reading. • Brenton's Septuagint 1851 (public domain), Numbers 21:8, the serpent set on a "signal-staff," the Greek semeion / a sign behind John 3:14. • Charles John Ellicott, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (public domain), conceding "the LXX have semeion" for the pole of Numbers 21:8. • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, John Gill, Matthew Henry, John Calvin, Johann Albrecht Bengel, and Albert Barnes, all public domain, quoted verbatim and credited on screen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 The most religious man in Israel came at night 01:03 One covenant, one people: the serpent and the sign 03:07 John 3, the full chapter, read aloud (KJV) 07:09 Born again from above: water, the Spirit, and why the rite never saved 10:42 The serpent on the standard: your Bible's "pole," the Septuagint's "sign" 14:23 For God so loved the world: man as man, not one nation 16:46 He must increase: the forerunner who would not share His glory 17:55 The wrath that abides, and the one door 20:00 Tomorrow: John 4 #John3 #BornAgain #Septuagint #KJV #DailyBibleReading #BibleStudy #BookOfJohn #ChristIsKing #SovereignLogos