Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
this is the condemnation, etc.—emphatically so, revealing the condemnation already existing, and sealing up under it those who will not be delivered from it.
light is come into the world—in the Person of Him to whom Nicodemus was listening.
loved darkness, etc.—This can only be known by the deliberate rejection of Christ, but that does fearfully reveal it.
not to condemn, etc.—A statement of vast importance. Though "condemnation" is to many the issue of Christ's mission (John 3:19), it is not the object of His mission, which is purely a saving one.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 3:19:
Job 24:13
Isaiah 42:3
Jeremiah 29:8
Ezekiel 13:2
Ezekiel 13:19
Matthew 5:14
John 3:17-21
Ephesians 5:11
Ephesians 5:13
James 1:17
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