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Gill's Exposition
For God so loved the world,.... The Persic version reads "men": but not every man in the world is here meant, or all the individuals of human nature; for all are not the objects of God's special love,…
Barnes' Notes
That whosoever - This shows the fulness and freeness of the gospel. All may come and be saved.Believeth in him - Whosoever puts confidence in him as able and willing to save. All who feel that they…
Adam Clarke
That whosoever believeth - Bp. Pearce supposes that this verse is only the conclusion of the 16th, and that it has been inserted in this place by mistake. The words contain the reason of the subject…
We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one, a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of…
Cambridge Bible
That The eternal life of believers is the purpose of the - must " in Joh 3:3. For -should" read may both here and in Joh 3:3.
not perish, but These words are not genuine here, but have been taken from…
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