John 3:10
New International Version
“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?

English Standard Version
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

Berean Standard Bible
“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus answered and said to him, "You are the teacher of Israel, and do you not know these things?

King James Bible
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

New King James Version
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

NASB 1995
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

NASB 1977
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

Amplified Bible
Jesus replied, “You are the [great and well-known] teacher of Israel, and yet you do not know nor understand these things [from Scripture]?

Christian Standard Bible
“Are you a teacher of Israel and don’t know these things? ” Jesus replied.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Are you a teacher of Israel and don’t know these things?” Jesus replied.

American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua answered and said to him: “You are the Teacher of Israel and you do not know these things?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied: How can you be a teacher of Israel and not know these things?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

English Revised Version
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus told Nicodemus, "You're a well-known teacher of Israel. Can't you understand this?

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this?

International Standard Version
Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

Literal Standard Version
Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not know these things?

Majority Standard Bible
“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?

New American Bible
Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this?

NET Bible
Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

New Heart English Bible
Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

Weymouth New Testament
"Are you," replied Jesus, "'the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things?

World English Bible
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

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Context
Jesus and Nicodemus
9“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked. 10“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things? 11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.…

Cross References
Luke 2:46
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 5:17
One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

John 3:9
"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.

Acts 5:34
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?

Art.

Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Isaiah 29:10-12
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered…

Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

and knowest.

Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Deuteronomy 30:6
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

1 Chronicles 29:19
And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.

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1. Jesus teaches Nicodemus the necessity of being born again,
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16. the great love of God toward the world,
18. and the condemnation for unbelief.
22. Jesus baptizes in Judea.
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(10) Art thou a master of Israel?--Better, Art thou the teacher of Israel? The article is emphatic, and points to the position of Nicodemus as a teacher of repute--"the well-known teacher;" or possibly it is to be understood of the Sanhedrin as represented by him--"Is this the teaching of Israel?" There is something of just indignation here, as everywhere when the words of Jesus Christ are addressed to the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. "You who teach others, have you need to learn the very first lessons of true religion? You who claim to loose and bind men, and place heavy burdens on them which they cannot bear, are you without the simplest real knowledge of what God is, or of what man is? Do teachers of Israel know not these things when they lie beneath every page of the Old Testament Scriptures?"

Verse 10. - Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and perceivest thou not these things? The term "Israel" is used four times by John (John 1:31, 49; John 12:13; and here). In each place the high dignity, calling, and glory of the nation chosen for the loftiest privilege and destiny are involved. Notice the article, "the Israel" of God. The article before διδάσκαλος gives a high distinction to Nicodemus. Schottgen and Lucke suppose some special office to be here referred to, either the president of the Sanhedrin, or the hakim, or chakam, "the wise man," who sat on his left in the public sessions, or the "father of the house of judgment," who sat on his right; but it may simply mean the teacher of Israel, who has come to me in representative fashion, and who is reminded that he should have been more intimately acquainted with the teaching of his own sacred books (Farrar, 'Life of Christ,' p. 153). Without doubt, the fact of human corruption, and the power of the Spirit of God to renovate, to change utterly down to the very core and heart of human nature, is a great dogma of the Old Testament (cf. Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 Samuel 10:9, where God gave Saul another heart; 1 Samuel 16:13, the effect upon David; David's own prayer, Psalm 51:10; and the great promises of God by Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 36:26; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 31:33). Nicodemus, an illustrious man, a teacher of ethers, presumably acquainted with the teaching of the Scriptures, need not have been in such doubt and amazement at the searching words of Jesus.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“You
Σὺ (Sy)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

are
εἶ (ei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

Israel’s
Ἰσραὴλ (Israēl)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2474: Of Hebrew origin; Israel, the adopted name of Jacob, including his descendants.

teacher,”
διδάσκαλος (didaskalos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1320: A teacher, master. From didasko; an instructor.

said
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

Jesus,
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

“and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you do not understand
γινώσκεις (ginōskeis)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

these things?
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.


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