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that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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A Simple Look of Faith
Commentators stress that salvation is offered to "whosoever," making it universally available. The analogy to the Israelites looking at the bronze serpent highlights the simplicity of faith. Just as the dying Israelites only needed to look to be healed, sinners only need to look to the crucified Christ in faith. As Albert Barnes notes, what could be easier for a dying sinner than to look to God's Son for life?
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That whosoever. This shows the fullness and freeness of the gospel. All may come and be saved.
Believeth in him. Whoever p…
That whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life (ινα πας ο πιστευων εν αυτω εχη ζωην αιωνιον). Final use of ινα with present…
19th Century
Anglican
Not perish, but . . .—These words have been added here from the following verse. Omitting them, the sentence should be rendered, <…
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Baptist
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 peri…
The reference to a story in the Pentateuch (Numbers 21:4–9) would have been familiar to Nicodemus, for the Jewish scholars spent the la…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That whosoever believeth in him Whether Jew or Gentile, a greater, or a lesser sinner, and of whatsoever state and c…
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13th Century
Catholic
Above, in His instruction on spiritual generation, the Lord presented a reason; here He gives an example. For we see that Nicodemus was t…
