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  "book": {
    "id": "JHN",
    "name": "John",
    "slug": "john"
  },
  "chapter": 3,
  "chapter_introduction": null,
  "commentary": {
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    "author": "Albert Barnes (1798-1870)",
    "id": "barnes",
    "license": "public_domain",
    "name": "Barnes' Notes on the Bible",
    "published": "1832-1853",
    "scope": "Old and New Testaments"
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      "reference": "John 3:16",
      "text": "For God so loved - This does not mean that God approved the conduct of men, but that he had benevolent feelings toward them, or was \"earnestly desirous\" of their happiness. God hates wickedness, but he still desires the Happiness of those who are sinful. \"He hates the sin, but loves the sinner.\" A parent may love his child and desire his welfare, and yet be strongly opposed to the conduct of that child. When we approve the conduct of another, this is the love of complacency; when we desire simply their happiness, this is the love of benevolence.\n\nThe world - All mankind. It does not mean any particular part of the world, but man as man - the race that had rebelled and that deserved to die. See John 6:33; John 17:21. His love for the world, or for all mankind, in giving his Son, was shown by these circumstances:\n\n1. All the world was in ruin, and exposed to the wrath of God.\n\n2. All people were in a hopeless condition.\n\n3. God gave his Son. Man had no claim on him; it was a gift - an undeserved gift.\n\n4. He gave him up to extreme sufferings, even the bitter pains of death on the cross.\n\n5. It was for all the world. He tasted \"death for every man,\" Hebrews 2:9. He \"died for all,\" 2 Corinthians 5:15. \"He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world,\" 1 John 2:2.\n\nThat he gave - It was a free and unmerited gift. Man had no claim: and when there was no eye to pity or arm to save, it pleased God to give his Son into the hands of men to die in their stead, Galatians 1:4; Romans 8:32; Luke 22:19. It was the mere movement of love; the expression of eternal compassion, and of a desire, that sinners should not perish forever.\n\nHis only-begotten Son - See the notes at John 1:14. This is the highest expression of love of which we can conceive. A parent who should give up his only son to die for others who are guilty if this could or might be done - would show higher love than could be manifested in any other way. So it shows the depth of the love of God, that he was willi… [119 more characters]",
      "verse_end": 16,
      "verse_start": 16,
      "verse_text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
    }
  ],
  "next_chapter": "John 4",
  "observed_at_ms": 1793156996120,
  "previous_chapter": "John 2",
  "reference": "John 3:16",
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  "source_credit": "Notes on the Bible by Albert Barnes [1834]. Text Courtesy of Internet Sacred Texts Archive.",
  "url": "https://biblehub.com/commentaries/barnes/john/3.htm"
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