42And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
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For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-44)Here we have, I. Christ’s tender sympathy with his afflicted friends, and the share he took to himself in their sorrows, which appeared three ways:— 1. By the inward groans and troubles of his spirit (John 11:33): Jesus saw Mary weeping for the loss of a loving brother, and the Jews that came with her weeping for the loss of a good neighbour and friend; when he saw what a place of weepers , a boch…
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