in our Common Version reads, “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” Similarly reads the American Revised Version, but the margin reads, “The Spirit breatheth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” The original word pneuma is rendered everywhere in the New Testament by the term “spirit,” with this one exception. It is rendered “wind” nowhere else. Why should the exception be made here? What Jesus was trying to teach Nicodemus was spiritual things. The illustration of the wind may be a true one, but it is a weak one as compared with the strength of the original text. Nicodemus wanted to know, how could these things be? Jesus said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born from above.” The power of God through His Spirit was able. “The Spirit breatheth where it will.” It is not compelled to act according to human reason; it acts above it. It does not obey natural laws; it obeys heavenly laws. And so of every one that is born of the Spirit.