John 3:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ”

• John 3:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He that believeth - He that has confidence in him; that relies on him; that trusts to his merits and promises for salvation. To believe on him is to feel and act according to truth that is, to go...

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• John 3:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conversation with Nicodemus. Nicodemus is an example of those to whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer co...

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• John 3:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the name : i.e. Him. See note on Psalms 20:1 . Son of God . See App-98.

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• John 3:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. He who believeth in him is not condemned. When he so frequently and so earnestly repeats, that all believers are beyond danger of death, we may infer from it the great necessity of firm...

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• John 3:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. He that believeth - As stated befo...

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• John 3:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He that believeth on him is not condemned:— From the gracious design of God towards the world, mentioned in the preceding verses, our Lord concludes, that they who believe on the Son of God are not...

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• John 3:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. He that believeth on him i...

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• John 3:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Birth. John's Testimony to Jesus 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impressio...

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• John 3:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He that believeth on him is not condemned. — Again, judged is better than “condemned.” There is, moreover, an important change of tense in this verse, which the Authorised version does not mark c...

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• John 3:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 8 THE BRAZEN SERPENT. “Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?...

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• John 3:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Love's Great Gift: Received or Rejected John 3:9-21 Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them....

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• John 3:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because...

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• John 3:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee,...

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• John 3:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that believeth on him is not condemned ,.... Whether Jew or Gentile, because a believer is openly in Christ; and there is no condemnation to those that are in him: and though the sentence of deat...

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• John 3:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Ver. 18. Is condemned already...

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• John 3:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For God so loved the world , &c. Here our Lord proceeds to inform Nicodemus, that men owed the blessings above mentioned to the free and immense love of God the Father, who desired their salvati...

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• John 3:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evi...

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• John 3:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Interview with Nicodemus.       1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:   2 The same came to Jesus...

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• John 3:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Whose firmly and steadily assenting to the propositions of the gospel, revealing Jesus Christ as the only and all sufficient Saviour, commits the care of his soul unto him trusting and hoping in him...

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• John 3:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God'. He stresses that it is not God W...

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• John 3:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 3:16-21 . These verses are confidently held by many to contain the reflections of the Evangelist, and not to be a continuation of our Lord’s discourse. But (...

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• John 3:18 - Scofield Reference Notes

  He that See ( John 6:40 ); ( John 6:47 ); ( Romans 8:1 ).

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• John 3:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 3:18 In this text unbelief in Christ is represented as a positive crime a crime with which, in point of enormity, no other form of human sinfulness can be compared a crime which not only fast...

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• John 3:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  If you were called in to see a person who was dying, and wished to read a chapter from the Word of God, and you were afraid that the sick one did not know the way of salvation, you could not select a...

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• John 3:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 3:1 . Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews. This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Ch...

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• John 3:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world Salvation I. WHAT IT IS THAT GOD HAS ACTUALLY DONE FOR US AS FALLEN SINNERS. 1. What is done? He hath redeemed us. Fallen by sin...

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• John 3:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an u...

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• John 3:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  He that believeth on Him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

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• John 3:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 5:10 ; 1 John 5:12 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; John 20:31 ; John 3:36 ; John 5:24 ; John 6:40 ; John 6:47 ; Mark 16:16 ; Romans 5:1 ; Romans 8:1 ; Romans 8:34

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• John 3:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He that believeth on him is not condemned — Is acquitted, is justified before God. The name of the only — begotten Son of God — The name of a person is often put for the person himself. But perhaps...

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