A Study of John's Gospel

John 3:34-36: Believe In The Son and Have Eternal Life

Believe In The Son and Have Eternal Life

A study of John 3:34-36

"For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭34‬-‭36‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Definitions of the original language in the context of this passage:

-Utters (Speaks): "laleō", "λαλέω"; verb - to speak; to announce or preach the Word of God or the doctrine of salvation.

-Words: "rēma", "ῥῆμα"; neuter noun - speech discourse; speaks what God bids Him.

-He Gives: "didōmi", "δίδωμι"; verb - to give something.

-Spirit: "Pneuma", "πνεῦμα"; neuter noun - the Holy Spirit (august, full of majesty, adorable, utterly opposed to all impurity).

-Without: "ou", "οὐ"; particle - It is joined to other words — to a finite verb, simply to deny that what is declared in the verb applies to the subject of the sentence.

-Measure: "metron", "μέτρον"; neuter noun - an instrument for measuring; sparingly.

-Father: "Patēr", "πατήρ"; masculine noun - God is called the Father.

-Loves: "agapaō", "ἀγαπάω"; verb - of the love with which God regards Christ.

-Son: "Huios", "υἱός"; masculine noun - term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts.

-Believes: "pisteuō", "πιστεύω"; verb - used especially of the faith by which a man embraces Jesus, i. e. a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah — the divinely appointed author of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God, conjoined with obedience to Christ. To have faith directed unto, believing or in faith to give oneself up to Jesus.

-Has: "echō", "ἔχω"; verb - one is said to have intellectual or spiritual faculties, endowments, virtues, sensations, desires, emotions, affections, faults, defects, etc.

-Eternal: "aiōnios", "αἰώνιος"; adjective - without end, never to cease, everlasting.

-Life: "zōē", "ζωή"; feminine noun - life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last forever.

-Whoever Does Not Obey: "apeitheō", "ἀπειθέω"; verb - to refuse or withhold belief in Christ, in the gospel.

-See: "horaō", "ὁράω"; verb - to see, i.e. to become acquainted with by experience, to experience; equivalent to: to become a partaker of.

-Wrath: "orgē", "ὀργή"; feminine noun - The ὀργή attributed to God in the N. T. is that in God which stands opposed to man's disobedience, obstinance (especially in resisting the gospel) and sin, and manifests itself in punishing the same.

-Abides: "menō", "μένω"; verb - equivalent to: not to depart, not to leave, to continue to be present; of the wrath of God.

-On: "epi", "ἐπί"; preposition - of position, on, at, by, over, against.

Observation/Summary (short explanation of what the passage says in your own words):

This passage tells us He (Jesus) who God has sent speaks the very Words of God, and has been given the Holy Spirit without limitation. God the Father loves Jesus Christ who is also God the Son, and He has given all authority and power to Him. Whoever believes in Jesus Christ will receive eternal life. But everyone who does not believe will remain under God's wrath and never see and experience the wonderful, eternal life God desires to give to all mankind.