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/* Nine */ Jn 3:2 - Nicodemus' poss. use of "royal we"
"'''''We'' speak that which ''We'' know, and testify of that which ''We'' have seen, and you do not receive ''Our'' witness.'''" <small>
:John 3:11
:The first occurrence in which Jesus uses the "majestic plural" form 'We' and 'Our' as the Lord.<br>Compare Matthew 17:27; 20:18; Mark 4:30; 10:33; Luke 18:31; 22:8; John 14:33.<br>Nicodemus, in his dignity as an established rabbi and a distinguished member of the [[Sanhedrin]], may have been referring to himself by the same plural singular form "we" in his own acknowledgement of Jesus' divinely appointed authority—"Rabbi, ''We'' know that you are a ''Teacher'' come from God." (See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/john/3-2.htm commentaries on John 3:2].)
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