For judgement (εις κριμα). The Father had sent the Son for this purpose (3:17). This world (κοσμος) is not the home of Jesus. The …

For judgment. The word judgment, here, has been by some understood in the sense of condemnation—"The effect of my coming is to co…

For judgment I am come into this world.—These words arise immediately out of what has preceded. The beggar has passed fro…

And Jesus said to him, You have both seen him, and it is he who talks with you. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. And Jesus …

St. John Chrysostom: Those who suffer for the sake of the truth and the confession of Christ come to the greatest honor, as we…

The negative result is illustrated by the Pharisees’ response. Jesus’ remark in v.39 makes him the pivot on which human destiny turns. The Pharisee…

For judgment am I come into this world. The word judgment cannot be understood, in this passage, to denote simply the punishment …

And Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world ,
&c.] The Syriac version reads, "for the judgment of this wo…

Christ came into the world to give sight to those who were spiritually blind. He came also that those who see might be made blind; and that those w…

1. After the Evangelist showed how the Jews cast out the man born blind because he persisted in the truth, he now shows how Jesus received a…