Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 3:17
Condemn] lit. 'judge' (RV), but the context shows that an unfavourable judgment is meant.
Condemn] lit. 'judge' (RV), but the context shows that an unfavourable judgment is meant.
Verse John 3:17. _FOR GOD SENT NOT_, c.] It was the opinion of the Jews that the Gentiles, whom they often term _the world_, עלמה olmah, and _omoth haolam, __אומות העולם __nations of the world_, were...
TO CONDEMN THE WORLD - Not to judge, or pronounce sentence on mankind. God might justly have sent him for this. Man deserved condemnation, and it would have been right to have pronounced it; but God w...
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...
GOD SENT NOT HIS SON TO CONDEMN THE WORLD. Christ came to be the Savior. His mission was to "save his people from their sins." There is condemnation, but it is because of unbelief. "This is the conde...
THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
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...
SENT. Greek. _apostello._ App-174. TO CONDEMN. to judge. Greek _krino._ App-122. A characteristic word of this Gospel. See note on p. 1511. THROUGH. Greek. _dia._ App-104.John 3:1....
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...
_the world_ Note the emphatic repetition: the whole human race is meant, as in John 3:16, not the Gentiles in particular. _not … to condemn_ This does not contradict John 9:39, -For judgment am I come...
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...
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...
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...
ΤῸΝ ΚΌΣΜΟΝ. Thrice for emphasis; characteristic of S. John’s style (comp. John 3:31; John 1:10; John 12:36; John 15:19;...
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,...
ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, посылать в качестве официального представителя (TDNT; EDNT). Это может подготавливать читателя к ст. 19, потому что это слово относится к исто...
DISCOURSE: 1611 THE END FOR WHICH GOD SENT HIS SON John 3:17. _For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved_. AN expectation generally p...
FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON—TO CONDEMN THE WORLD;— God is often represented as an avenger in the Old Testament: and as mankind had incurred his wrath by their iniquities, it might be expected that when h...
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...
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD; BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH...
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...
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...
TO CONDEMN THE WORLD gives to the English reader a stronger impression than that of the original Greek. The word (κρίνω_, krino,_ the Latin _c_(_k_)_erno,_ and the English dis_-cern_) means originally...
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...
οὐ γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν … διʼ αὐτοῦ. For whatever the result of Christ's coming has been, in revealing a love of sin and bringing heavier judgment on men, this was not God's purpose in sending His Son. The...
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...
(6) For God sent not his Son into the world (p) to condemn the world; but that the (q) world through him might be saved. (6) Christ does not condemn, but rather despising Christ condemns. (p) That i...
Give his only begotten Son --- God sent not his Son into the world. He was then his Son, his only begotten Son, before he sent him into the world. He was not, therefore, his Son, only by the incarnati...
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. 17. “ _For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him._ ” _ For:_ the purpose of the mission of the Son, as it is indicated in this vers...
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...
17._For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world. _It is a confirmation of the preceding statement; for it was not in vain that God sent his own Son to us. He came not to destroy; and...
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...
FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD,.... God did send his Son into the world in the likeness of sinful flesh, being made of a woman, and made under the law; and which is an instance of his great l...
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Ver. I7. _Not to condemn the world_] Unless it be by accident, because they will not be sa...
_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...
MIGHT BE SAVED; on their compliance with the terms of salvation....
FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. The act of Moses in the wilderness, in erecting the brazen serpent before the eyes of the s...
The purpose of Christ's coming:...
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...
OLBGrk; The word we translate _condemn, _ krinh, signifies to judge, as well as to condemn. The Jews were mistaken in their proud conceit, that Christ came to judge and destroy all those that were not...
Tertullian Against Praxeas 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."[254]...
John 3:17 For G1063 God G2316 not G3756 send G649 (G5656) His G846 Son G5207 into G1519 world...
‘For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world should be saved through him.' Other (mythical) gods came to the world to condemn it, never to save it, but God's pu...
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...
John 3:17. FOR GOD SENT NOT THE SON INTO THE WORLD THAT HE MAY JUDGE THE WORLD; BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MAY BE SAVED. The thought of the last verse is expanded. There it was the gift of God's l...
FOR GOD SENT NOT THE SON (ου γαρ απεστειλεν ο θεος τον υιον). Explanation (γαρ) of God's sending the Son into the world. First aorist active indicative of αποστελλω. John uses both αποστελλω from wh...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _ CONDEMN Or, judge, and so in (John 3:18); (John 3:19). Compare ...
John 3:16 The Atonement. I. As one of the wisest of the heathens said, everything has two handles one by which it may, and one by which it may not, be taken hold of. The handle by which this blessed...
John 3:14. _And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life._ «Whosoever.» Not...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If we were asked to read to a dying man who did not know the gospel, we should probably select this chapter as the most suitable one for such an occasion; and what is good for dying men is good for us...
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...
BUT TO BE ITS SAVIOR. The world was already condemned because of sin, and doomed. Jesus came to make it possible for us to escape from this, and to return to God. See Revelation 1:5-6. [When Jesus Com...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 3:17 SEND HIS SON. See also vv. John 3:34; John 5:19;...
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...
_For God sent not,_ &c. He confirms and intensifies the assertion of the infinite love of God to men, as proved by Christ's being crucified. For God might justly have sent His Son into the world to de...
_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 2:2; 1 John 4:14; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 45:21;...
Sent [α π ε σ τ ε ι λ ε ν]. See on 1 6. Sent rather than gave (ver. 16), because the idea of sacrifice is here merged in that of authoritative commission. His Son. The best texts read ton, the, for a...
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world — Although many accuse him of it....
Did Jesus come to judge the world or not? PROBLEM: According to this verse, God did not “send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” He added late...
Observe here, That the salvation of sinners was the intentional end, and the condemnation of them only the accidental event, of Christ's coming into the world. The design of Christ's first coming into...