John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 3:12
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Ver. 12. If I have told you earthly things ] That is, spiritual things under earthly gross similitudes, of wind, water, &c. In the mystery of Christ, the best of us are acute obtusi. But for the natural man, that cannot tell the nature of the wind, or enter into the depth of the flower or the grass, &c., how should he possibly have the wit to enter into the deep things... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 3:11
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Ver. 11. Ye receive not our witness ] Our Saviour joins himself with the prophets (whose writings Nicodenms had read so negligently), and takes it for a dishonour that he should have written for men the great things of his law, and they continue strangers thereto, Hosea 8:12 . read more