Johannes 3:16

For God so loved the world, &c.--What proclamation of the Gospel has been so often upon the lips of missionaries and preachers in every age since its first announcement? What has sent such stirring emotions through millions of mankind? What has been deemed worthy to bring such multitudes to the feet of Christ? What, to kindle in the cold and selfish breasts of mortals the fires of self-denying love to humanity, as these words of transparent simplicity, yet overwhelming majesty? The image comprehends several distinct sections: "THE WORLD"--in its widest sense--ready to "perish"; the immense "LOVE OF GOD" to that dying world, measurable only, and conceivable only, through the gift which it produced from Him; THE GIFT itself--"so he loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" or, in the language of Paul, "spared not his own Son" (Rom. 8:32), or in that addressed to Abraham, as he was ready to offer Isaac upon the altar: "withheld not his son, his only son, whom he loved" (Gen. 22:16); the FRUIT of this tremendous gift--not merely salvation from impending "perdition", but the bestowal of eternal life; the MANNER in which all becomes effectual--through "faith" in the Son. How would Nicodemus' narrow Judaism vanish in the splendour of this Sun of righteousness, which is seen rising over "the world" with healing in its wings! (Mal. 4:2).

For God has not sent his Son into the world,.... God has indeed sent his Son into the world, in the likeness of sinful flesh, born of a woman and made subject to the law; and this is a proof of his great love and not a sign of any contempt towards his Son or of any inequality between them: but nevertheless this was not designed to condemn the world; neither any part of it or any in it: not the Gentiles, as the Jews thought he would do; for although God had suffered them to walk in their own ways, and had overlooked or winked at the times of their ignorance, and had sent them no prophet, nor given them any revelation of his will, or any notice of his special grace; yet he did not now send his Son to destroy them for their idolatry and wickedness, but to be their Saviour: nor the Jews; for however unbelieving and impenitent and wicked they were, he did not accuse them to the Father, nor judge and condemn them; he would come a second time in power and great glory, when he would take vengeance on them, and bring wrath upon them to the uttermost for their unbelief and rejection of him; but that was not his business now: nor the wicked of the world in general; judge and condemn them he will, when he comes a second time, on the day which God has appointed to judge the world in righteousness. But the design of his mission and his first coming is, that the world through him might be saved; even the world of the elect in general, which God was determined to save, and had chosen to obtain salvation through Jesus Christ, and which Christ was appointed to save; and they, being sent, came into the world to seek and save; and his chosen people among the Gentiles in particular: wherefore he is said to be God's salvation unto the ends of the earth: and all the ends of the earth are called upon to.....

3:16-21 Da es im griechischen Text keine Anführungszeichen um die Rede Jesu gibt, debattieren Übersetzer darüber, wo die Rede Jesu endet und Johannnes' Kommentar beginnt; 3:16-21 könnte Johannnes' Kommentar sein. 3:16 Die Wahrheit, dass Gott die Welt geliebt hat, ist grundlegend für das christliche Verständnis (1 Joh 4,9-10). Gottes Liebe erstreckt sich über die Grenzen von Rasse und Nation hinaus, sogar auf diejenigen, die sich ihm widersetzen (siehe das Thema „Die Welt"). • Der Sohn kam, um zu retten – nicht zu verdammen (3:17) – Männer und Frauen, die gewöhnlich die Finsternis umfassen (3:19-21).

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