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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he whom God hath sent,.... Still meaning Christ, who was sent in human nature, in the likeness of sinful flesh, in the fulness of time; to be the Saviour of the world, of that which was lost, of the chief of sinners; and to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel, which is more especially here designed; and for which he was abundantly qualified...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Father loveth the Son,.... There is such a relation as that of Father and Son subsisting between the first and second persons in the Trinity; which is not by constitution and appointment: or arbitrary, arising from, and depending on the will of the first, but is natural and necessary; the second person being begotten by the first, and is of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. So John’s last words are thunder; his dying speech has in it the word most terrible to all of you who believe not in Christ, “The wrath of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: He has it now; and he can never lose it, or else it would not be everlasting. He has a life that must exist for ever and ever.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that believeth on the Son,.... Who is a proper object of faith and trust; which, if he was not truly and properly God, he would not be: and this is to be understood not of any sort of faith, a temporary, or an historical one; but of that which is the faith of God's elect, the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit; by which a man sees the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; He shall not even know what spiritual life is, he shall not be able to understand it, or to form any idea of it. While he is an unbeliever, he is blind to spiritual things. What a dreadful sentence that is I “He shall not see life;” — Joh_3:36. But the wrath of God abideth on him. God is ever...