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 12:31

12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world ²  will be driven out. ³ 

John 16:28

16:28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, ⁴  I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” ⁵ 

John 17:18

17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. ⁶ 

[3:17]  ¹ sn That is, “to judge the world to be guilty and liable to punishment.”

[12:31]  ² sn The ruler of this world is a reference to Satan.

[12:31]  ³ tn Or “will be thrown out.” This translation regards the future passive ἐκβληθήσεται (ekblhqhsetai) as referring to an event future to the time of speaking.

[16:28]  ³ tn Or “into the world; again.” Here πάλιν (palin) functions as a marker of contrast, with the implication of a sequence.

[16:28]  ⁴ sn The statement I am leaving the world and going to the Father is a summary of the entire Gospel of John. It summarizes the earthly career of the Word made flesh, Jesus of Nazareth, on his mission from the Father to be the Savior of the world, beginning with his entry into the world as he came forth from God and concluding with his departure from the world as he returned to the Father.

[17:18]  ⁴ sn Jesus now compared the mission on which he was sending the disciples to his own mission into the world, on which he was sent by the Father. As the Father sent Jesus into the world (cf. 3:17), so Jesus now sends the disciples into the world to continue his mission after his departure. The nature of this prayer for the disciples as a consecratory prayer is now emerging: Jesus was setting them apart for the work he had called them to do. They were, in a sense, being commissioned.