John 3:17

3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, ¹  but that the world should be saved through him.

John 6:33

6:33 For the bread of God is the one who ²  comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:51

6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread ³  that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 12:47

12:47 If anyone ⁴  hears my words and does not obey them, ⁵  I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁶ 

Matthew 18:11

18:11 [[EMPTY]] ⁷ 

Matthew 20:28

20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom ⁸  for many.”

Luke 19:10

19:10 For the Son of Man came ⁹  to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:1

Jesus and Zacchaeus

19:1 Jesus ¹⁰  entered Jericho ¹¹  and was passing through it.

Luke 1:15

1:15 for he will be great in the sight of ¹²  the Lord. He ¹³  must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ¹⁴ 

¹ sn That is, “to judge the world to be guilty and liable to punishment.”

² tn Or “he who.”

³ tn Grk “And the bread.”

⁴ tn Grk “And if anyone”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.

⁵ tn Or “guard them,” “keep them.”

⁶ sn Cf. John 3:17.

⁷ tc The most important mss (א B L* Θ* Ë^1,13 33 892* pc e ff¹ sy^s sa) do not include 18:11 “For the Son of Man came to save the lost.” The verse is included in D L^mg W Θ^c 078^vid Ï lat sy^c,p,h, but is almost certainly not original, being borrowed, as it were, from the parallel in Luke 19:10. The present translation follows NA²⁷ in omitting the verse number as well, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.

⁸ sn The Greek word for ransom (λύτρον, lutron) is found here and in Mark 10:45 and refers to the payment of a price in order to purchase the freedom of a slave. The idea of Jesus as the “ransom” is that he paid the price with his own life by standing in our place as a substitute, enduring the judgment that we deserved for sin.

⁹ sn The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost is Jesus’ mission succinctly defined. See Luke 15:1-32.

¹⁰ tn Grk “And entering, he passed through”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

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¹² tn Grk “before.”

¹³ tn Grk “and he”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun in the translation.

¹⁴ tn Grk “even from his mother’s womb.” While this idiom may be understood to refer to the point of birth (“even from his birth”), Luke 1:41 suggests that here it should be understood to refer to a time before birth.