FROM ABOVE — and also AGAIN. The word carries both, which is the whole engine of John 3: Jesus says a man must be born anōthen, Nicodemus hears the temporal sense and asks about re-entering a womb. ⚠ Counted in the SBLGNT archive it occurs 13 times in the New Testament and five are John's (3:3, 3:7, 3:31, 19:11, 19:23) — and every other Johannine use is SPATIAL (authority 'given from above,' a tunic woven 'from the top'), never temporal. The temporal sense is real elsewhere: Galatians 4:9 has men wanting to be enslaved anōthen, all over again. And John settles his own usage at 3:31, where 'the one coming anōthen' is glossed in the same verse by 'the one coming out of heaven.' No English word does both jobs, so every version breaks the hinge somewhere; both Spanish witnesses split it two ways inside this one chapter. → first discussed at John 3:3