Ἰωάννην 3:17

Greek Modern Translation

Επειδη δεν απεστειλεν ο Θεος τον Υιον αυτου εις τον κοσμον δια να κρινη τον κοσμον, αλλα δια να σωθη ο κοσμος δι' αυτου.

Parallel Translations

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
οὐ γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ⸀υἱὸν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα κρίνῃ τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ ἵνα σωθῇ ὁ κόσμος δι αὐτοῦ.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
οὐ γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα κρίνῃ τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ’ ἵνα σωθῇ ὁ κόσμος δι’ αὐτοῦ.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
ου γας απεστειλεν ο θεος τον υιον αυτου εις τον κοσμον ινα κρινη τον κοσμον αλλ ινα σωθη ο κοσμος δι αυτου

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
ου γαρ απεστειλεν ο θεορ τον υιον ειρ τον κοσμον ινα κρινη τον κοσμον αλλ ινα σωθη ο κοσμορ δι αυτου

Byzantine/Majority Text
ου γας απεστειλεν ο θεος τον υιον αυτου εις τον κοσμον ινα κρινη τον κοσμον αλλ ινα σωθη ο κοσμος δι αυτου

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: John 5:45, John 8:15, John 8:16, John 12:47, John 12:48, Luke 9:56

but: John 1:29, John 6:40, Isaiah 45:21-23, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:7, Isaiah 53:10-12, Zechariah 9:9, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 18:11, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 18:11, Luke 2:10, Luke 2:11, Luke 19:10, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 Timothy 2:6, 1 John 2:2, 1 John 4:14

Reciprocal: Psalms 40:10 - lovingkindness Isaiah 9:6 - unto us a son Zechariah 4:9 - and Matthew 27:43 - I am Luke 20:13 - I will John 3:34 - for God John 7:29 - for John 8:11 - Neither John 9:39 - For John 10:10 - I am John 10:36 - sent John 11:42 - that thou John 14:4 - and the John 17:3 - and Jesus 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - that they 1 Timothy 1:15 - worthy James 3:15 - wisdom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 love, and not of any disrespect to his Son, or of any inequality between them: but then this was not

to condemn the world; even any part of it, or any in it: not the Gentiles, as the Jews thought he would; for though God had suffered them to walk in their own ways, and had winked at, or overlooked the times of their ignorance, and had sent no prophet unto them, nor made any revelation of his will, or any discovery of his special grace unto them; yet he sent his Son now, not to destroy them for their idolatry, and wickedness, but to be the Saviour of them: nor the Jews; for as impenitent and unbelieving, and as wicked as they were, he did not accuse them to the Father, nor judge and condemn them; he was to come again in power and great glory, when he would take vengeance on them, and cause wrath to come upon them to the uttermost, for their disbelief and rejection of him; but this was not his business now: nor the wicked of the world in general; to judge, and condemn them, will be his work, when he comes a second time, in the day God has appointed to judge the world in righteousness.

But the end of his mission, and first coming is,

that the world through him might be saved; even the world of the elect in general, whom God determined to save, and has chosen, to obtain salvation by Jesus Christ, and has appointed Christ to be the salvation of; and who being sent, came into the world to seek and save them; and his chosen people among the Gentiles in particular: wherefore he is said to be God's salvation to the ends of the earth: and all the ends of the earth are called upon to look unto him, and be saved by him, Isaiah 49:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 was willing that there should be an offer of pardon, and the sentence of condemnation was delayed. But, although Jesus did not come then to condemn mankind, yet the time is coming when he will return to judge the living and the dead, Act 17:31; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Matthew 25:31-46.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 be destroyed in the days of the Messiah. Christ corrects this false opinion and teaches here a contrary doctrine. God, by giving his Son, and publishing his design in giving him, shows that he purposes the salvation, not the destruction, of the world-the Gentile people: nevertheless, those who will not receive the salvation he had provided for them, whether Jews or Gentiles, must necessarily perish; for this plain reason, There is but one remedy, and they refuse to apply it.