On the Epistles of John, Part 10: The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
6 This is He having come through water and blood, Yahshua Christ. Not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifies, because the Spirit is the Truth.
There are no references to being “born of water” in the Old Testament, so we only see the analogy here and in John chapter 3. But from the earlier passage in the Gospel we can know what it means to be “born of water”, or as it is here, “having come through water”, because Christ Himself explained the meaning where He had first used it, as it is recorded in John chapter 3 when Nicodemus could not understand what is “born from above”, and “5 Yahshua replied: ‘Truly, truly I say to you, if one should not be born from water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the Kingdom of Yahweh! 6 That which is born from of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born from of the Spirit is Spirit.’” ...
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