3, [Greek: ouk egnosan ton patera oude eme].

But a study of the context seems to make it clear that the only passage consciously present to Justin's mind was Matt.xi.27.

Dr.Keim thinks that St.John supplied him with a commentary oh the Matthaean text; but the coincidence may be after all accidental.
But the most important isolated case of literary parallelism is the well-known passage in Apol.i.61 [Endnote 281:2].
_Apol_.i.

61.
For Christ said: Except ye be born again ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Now that it is impossible for those who have once been born to return into the wombs of those who bare them is evident to all.
[Greek: Kai gar ho Christos eipen, An mae anagennaethaete, ou mae eiselthaete eis taen Basileian ton ouranon.