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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for John 3:14.
John 3:14-15
Excerpted from: John 3:16 in ContextBut like I said, in verse 14, He gives Nicodemus a bone, a biblical example that he could sink his teeth into: the bronze serpent that Moses erected in the wilderness to heal or to save in that sense physically, the Israelites. Just as the Israelites believed that they should be healed or would be healed if they looked at the serpent, so those who looked to Christ and His sacrifice for their sins will be saved from eternal death. They will not perish.
It is a simple type/anti-type that Nicodemus should have been able to figure out. An Old Testament scripture prophesied and foreshadowed the work of Christ, the new birth, the spiritual nature of conversion and belief, and the Kingdom of God being open to everyone, Gentiles included. It is all there but they did not have eyes to see or ears to hear, which He also castigated them for.
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