Whoever believes in the Son. Belief includes reaching out to seize the sacrifice of Christ. See note on James 2:19. "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved" (Mark 16:16). Whoever does not believe. He is already lost, and refuses to be saved by Christ. The unbeliever condemns himself. "Whoever does not believe will be condemned" (Mark 16:16).
Verse John 3:18. _HE THAT BELIEVETH_] As stated before on John 3:16. _IS NOT CONDEMNED_] For past sin, that being forgiven on his believing in Christ. _BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT_] When the Gospel is...
HE THAT BELIEVETH - He that has confidence in him; that relies on him; that trusts to his merits and promises for salvation. To believe on him is to feel and act according to truth that is, to go as l...
II. ETERNAL LIFE IMPARTED: What it is and What it Includes Chapter 2:23-17 The second part of this Gospel contains the blessed teachings the Son of God gave concerning eternal life, how it is impart...
THE CONVERSATION WITH NICODEMUS. Nicodemus is an example of those to whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer conce...
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Faith in Christ is essential to salvation, because it is the power that leads to obedience to him. Belie...
For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe already stands con...
THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
THE NAME: i.e. Him. See note on Psalms 20:1. SON OF GOD. See App-98....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_is not condemned … is condemned already_ Better, _is not_ JUDGED … HATH BEEN JUDGED _already_. The change of tense from present to perfect must be preserved. Unbelievers have no need to be sentenced...
It is much disputed whether what follows is a continuation of Christ's discourse, or the comment of the Evangelist upon it. The fact that terms characteristic of S. John's theology are put into the mo...
John 3:1-21. The discourse with Nicodemus This is the first of the eleven discourses of our Lord which form the main portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel. They have been u...
ΟΥ̓ ΚΡΊΝΕΤΑΙ … ΚΈΚΡΙΤΑΙ. Change of tense: _is not_ JUDGED … HATH BEEN JUDGED. The Messiah has no need to sentence unbelievers; their unbelief in the self-revelation (ὄνομα) of the Messiah is of itself...
16–21. It is much disputed whether what follows is a continuation of Christ’s discourse, or S. John’s comment upon it. That expressions characteristic of S. John’s diction appear (μονογενής, πιστεύειν...
John 3:1-21. THE DISCOURSE WITH NICODEMUS This is the first of the discourses of our Lord which form the main portion, and are among the great characteristics, of this Gospel. They have been used as a...
VER 16. FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 17. FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO COND...
_JESUS AFFIRMS HIS DEITY -- JOHN 3:9-21:_ Nicodemus did not yet understand that if it is true that Jesus is God in the flesh that man's obligation was to obey him. Jesus proved His Divinity by saying,...
ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΙΣΤΈΎΩ верить, _см._ John 3:16. ΚΡΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass._, _см._ John 3:17. Переход к _praes._, который является длительным или прогрессивным и предполагает, что п...
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED:— From the gracious design of God towards the world, mentioned in the preceding verses, our Lord concludes, that they who believe on the Son of God are not co...
MORE HEAVENLY MYSTERIES _Text 3:16-21_ 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God sent...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 3:9-21 We begin with an Analysis of the passage which is before us:— "Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?" (John 3:9). How this revea...
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT...
1 We have found an unholy temple, an unspiritual priesthood, and now we are introduced to an ignorant teacher! Intense application to a single text book for a whole life had not taught him the element...
3:18 on (a-4) on (a-23) _ Eis_ , as in ver. 36; chs. 4.39; 6.29,35,40....
IS CONDEMNED (lit. 'hath been judged') ALREADY] God's judgment upon men's actions is a present fact; He judges men here and now. The publication of His judgment, however, will not take place until the...
THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impression, n...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS TEACHES NICODEMUS 3:1-21 V1-2 A *Jewish leader called Nicodemus came to speak to Jesus. Nicodemus was a *Pharis...
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED. — Again, _judged_ is better than “condemned.” There is, moreover, an important change of tense in this verse, which the Authorised version does not mark clea...
CHAPTER 8 THE BRAZEN SERPENT. “Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things? Ver...
ὁ πιστεύων … τοῦ θεοῦ. Expansion of previous verse. God sent His Son not to judge but to save; and whoso accepts the son and His revelation is not judged. It is no longer “every Jew,” nor “every one c...
LOVE'S GREAT GIFT: RECEIVED OR REJECTED John 3:9-21 Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them. Notic...
Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because h...
_Is not judged. He that believeth, viz. by a faith working through charity, is not judged; that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate unbeliever is judged; that is, condemned already, by retrenching...
CHAPTER 8 REGENERATION THE GREAT SINE QUA NON John 3:1-21. _“There was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; the same came to Him by night, and said, Master, we know...
VER. 18. “ _He that believeth on him is not judged; but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only- begotten Son of God._ ” The idea of this verse is...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XIV. The passage from John 3:16 to John 3:21 is supposed by Westcott, and by Milligan and Moulton, among the most recent writers on this Gospel, as well as by...
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, W...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
18._He who believeth in him is not condemned. _When he so frequently and so earnestly repeats, that all believers are beyond danger of death, we may infer from it the great necessity of firm and assur...
But there was a man (chapter 3) and that a Pharisee who was not satisfied with this inoperative conviction. His conscience was reached. Seeing Jesus, and hearing His testimony, had produced a sense of...
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED,.... Whether Jew or Gentile, because a believer is openly in Christ; and there is no condemnation to those that are in him: and though the sentence of death p...
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Ver. 18. _Is condemned already_] T...
_For God so loved the world_, &c. Here our Lord proceeds to inform Nicodemus, that men owed the blessings above mentioned to the free and immense love of God the Father, who desired their salvation wi...
NOT CONDEMNED; ROMANS 8:1....
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED; BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD....
The contrast between light and darkness:...
NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evident...
1-8 Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ, therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him welco...
Whose firmly and steadily assenting to the propositions of the gospel, revealing Jesus Christ as the only and all sufficient Saviour, commits the care of his soul unto him trusting and hoping in him a...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V It is not, [however], that the light has inflicted upon them the penalty of blindness, but it is that the blindness itself has brought calamity upon them: and therefo...
John 3:18 believes G4100 (G5723) in G1519 Him G846 is G2919 not G3756 condemned G2919 (G5743) but...
‘He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God'. He stresses that it is not God Who...
John 3:18. HE THAT BELIEVETH IN HIM IS NOT JUDGED: HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT HATH BEEN JUDGED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. The two preceding verses ex...
It is of much importance to keep the closing verses of chap. 2 in close connection with the opening verses of chap. 3 (see the commentary on John 3:1). Rejected by the theocracy of Israel Jesus turns...
IS NOT JUDGED (ου κρινετα). Present passive indicative. Trust in Christ prevents condemnation, for he takes our place and pays the penalty for sin for all who put their case in his hands (Romans 8:...
HE THAT See (John 6:40); (John 6:47); (Romans 8:1)....
John 3:18 In this text unbelief in Christ is represented as a positive crime a crime with which, in point of enormity, no other form of human sinfulness can be compared a crime which not only fastens...
John 3:13. _And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven._ We are in the stairway now between heaven and earth; Christ has came dow...
If you were called in to see a person who was dying, and wished to read a chapter from the Word of God, and you were afraid that the sick one did not know the way of salvation, you could not select a...
John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man...
We can scarcely find a chapter in which the gospel lies so compact and so plainly stated. John 3:1. _There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:_ Christ's door is open at...
Let us once more read together part of this blessed soul-saving chapter. I suppose that more souls have been saved through the reading of this chapter than through almost any other portion of Holy Wri...
This is a very wonderful chapter, because, while it teaches the doctrine of regeneration, and the necessity of a great moral and spiritual change, it yet also reveals the doctrine of salvation by fait...
CONTENTS: Nicodemus and the new birth. The last testimony of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Nicodemus, John the Baptist, Moses, John's disciples. CONCLUSION: Since the natural...
John 3:1. _Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews._ This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Chris...
_For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world_ SALVATION I. WHAT IT IS THAT GOD HAS ACTUALLY DONE FOR US AS FALLEN SINNERS. 1. What is done? He hath redeemed us. Fallen by sin we are...
_He that believeth on Him is not condemned_ A REAL ACQUITTAL In the reign of George III. the son of a member of this Church lay under sentence of death for forgery. Dr. Rippon, after incredible exer...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 3:18 Those who do NOT BELIEVE in Christ do not have a neutral standing before God. They stand CONDEMNED ALREADY. This refutes the idea that a sincere person following any religion ca...
1-36 CHAPTER 3 _There was a man_, &c. Nicodemus means in Greek _the conqueror of the people._ Such was this man; who, overcoming the fear of the people, the Pharisees, and the priests, believed in Ch...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 3:16. These verses are confidently held by many to contain the reflections of the Evangelist, and not to be a continuation of our Lord’s discourse. But (1) there...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an unfriend...
Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed! There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews (John 3:1). We k...
1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:12; Hebrews 12:25; Hebrews 2:3; John 20:31;...
Is condemned already [η δ η κ ε κ ρ ι τ α ι]. Rev., more correctly, hath been judged already. Unbelief, in separating from Christ, implies judgment. He has been judged in virtue of his unbelief....
He that believeth on him is not condemned — Is acquitted, is justified before God. The name of the only — begotten Son of God — The name of a person is often put for the person himself. But perhaps it...