Luke 19:10

19:10 For the Son of Man came ¹  to seek and to save the lost.”

Matthew 18:11

18:11 [[EMPTY]] ² 

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 ³  for many.”

John 3:17

3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, ⁴  but that the world should be saved through him.

John 10:10

10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill ⁵  and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ⁶ 

John 12:47

12:47 If anyone ⁷  hears my words and does not obey them, ⁸  I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁹ 

John 12:1

Jesus’ Anointing

12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he ¹⁰  had raised from the dead.

John 1:15

1:15 John ¹¹  testified ¹²  about him and shouted out, ¹³  “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, ¹⁴  because he existed before me.’”

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

² 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.

³ 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.

⁴ sn That is, “to judge the world to be guilty and liable to punishment.”

⁵ tn That is, “to slaughter” (in reference to animals).

⁶ tn That is, more than one would normally expect or anticipate.

⁷ tn Grk “And if anyone”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.

⁸ tn Or “guard them,” “keep them.”

⁹ sn Cf. John 3:17.

¹⁰ tn Grk “whom Jesus,” but a repetition of the proper name (Jesus) here would be redundant in the English clause structure, so the pronoun (“he”) is substituted in the translation.

¹¹ sn John refers to John the Baptist.

¹² tn Or “bore witness.”

¹³ tn Grk “and shouted out saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant is English and has not been translated.

¹⁴ tn Or “has a higher rank than I.”