When
Jesus says that no one can ‘see’ the kingdom, He isn’t talking about
understanding or grasping what it is or having the eyes of faith to know about
it; rather Jesus uses the word ‘see’ to mean ‘experience’. For example, when someone
says, ‘I would love to see Europe’, they don’t mean they would love to
understand or know about Europe, but rather that they would love to go there
and actually experience it. In the same way, no one can ‘see’ God’s kingdom
unless they are born again. A few verses later, that becomes absolutely clear
when Jesus expresses the same idea in a different way, saying that those who
are not born again cannot ‘enter the kingdom of God.’ (Karl Deenick, Washed
by God: The Story of Baptism [Ross-Shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus
Publications, Inc., 2022], 43)
