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 3:34

3:34 For the one whom God has sent ²  speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. ³ 

John 5:38

5:38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

John 6:29

6:29 Jesus replied, ⁴  “This is the deed ⁵  God requires ⁶  – to believe in the one whom he ⁷  sent.”

John 6:57

6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes ⁸  me will live because of me.

John 10:36

10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart ⁹  and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

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

[3:34]  ² tn That is, Christ.

[3:34]  ³ tn Grk “for not by measure does he give the Spirit” (an idiom). Leviticus Rabbah 15:2 states: “The Holy Spirit rested on the prophets by measure.” Jesus is contrasted to this. The Spirit rests upon him without measure.

[6:29]  ³ tn Grk “answered and said to them.”

[6:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “the work.”

[6:29]  ⁵ tn Grk “This is the work of God.”

[6:29]  ⁶ tn Grk “that one” (i.e., God).

[6:57]  ⁴ tn Or “who chews”; Grk “who eats.” Here the translation “consumes” is more appropriate than simply “eats,” because it is the internalization of Jesus by the individual that is in view. On the alternation between ἐσθίω (esqiw, “eat,” v. 53) and τρώγω (trwgw, “eats,” vv. 54, 56, 58; “consumes,” v. 57) see the note on “eats” in v. 54.

[10:36]  ⁵ tn Or “dedicated.”