Juan 3:17

el mundo Nótese la repetición enfática: se refiere a toda la raza humana, como en Juan 3:16 , no a los gentiles en particular.

not … to condemn This does not contradict Juan 9:39, -For judgment am I come into this world." Comp. Lucas 9:56. Since there are sinners in the world Christ's coming involves a separation of them from the good, a judgment, a sentence: but this is not the purposeof His coming; the purpose is salvation.

-Condemn" is too strong here for the Greek word, which is simply to judge between good and bad; but the word frequently acquires the notion of -condemn" from the context (see on Juan 5:20). Note the change of construction; not, -to save the world," but -that the world might be saved through Him." The world can reject Him if it pleases.