John 1:13 meaning and explanation
children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
John 1:13, Berean Standard Bible
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In the prologue of John's Gospel, the evangelist is reflecting on what happened when the eternal Word came into the world. Verse 13 explains how people become God's children: not through physical descent (the Greek word for "blood" is haima, here in the plural, suggesting bloodlines or ancestry), nor through human desire or a man's will, but through God's own initiative.
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