Cross references

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

John 3:8 BSB

John 3:8 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 16 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 11:4–5 (41 votes) and 1 Corinthians 2:11 (29 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Job 37 to Revelation 11.

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Which verses does John 3:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap. As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

  2. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

  3. Acts 2:223 votes

    Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

  4. Ezekiel 37:920 votes

    Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”

  5. 1 John 2:2917 votes

    If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  6. Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how. …

  7. Acts 4:3113 votes

    After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

  8. John 1:1310 votes

    children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

  9. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.

  10. By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. …

Which verses point to John 3:8?

The 10 strongest of 18.