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    John 3:16: What’s It All About?
    John 3:16: What’s It All About?
    John 3:16: What’s It All About?
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    John 3:16: What’s It All About?

    By Murray J. Harris

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    What is the most famous and influential sentence of all time? Was it spoken or written in Mandarin or German or English--or Greek? And who spoke or recorded this sentence? A case could be made that twenty-five words found in the third chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Bible are history's most celebrated and powerful sentence. Writing for laypersons and specialists alike, in this little book Murray J. Harris, a specialist in Greek grammar, analyzes John 3:16 with the sort of care and precision that has marked his fruitful career in New Testament scholarship.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9781498224086
    John 3:16: What’s It All About?
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    Murray J. Harris

    Murray J. Harris is professor of New Testament Exegesis and Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Previously he was Warden of Tyndale House, a biblical research library in Cambridge, England. He presently resides in New Zealand.  

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      John 3:16

      What’s It All About?

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      JOHN 3:16

      What’s It All About?

      Copyright © 2015 Murray J. Harris. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-4982-2407-9

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      Harris, Murray J.

      John 3:16 : what’s it all about? / Murray J. Harris.

      xii + 42 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-4982-2407-9

      1. Bible. John III, 16—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.

      BS2615.52 H375 2015

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. 03/27/2015

      To Oliver and Jane and their spouses,
      and to friends far and near

      Acknowledgments

      Some material in the text and endnote of this book is drawn from the author’s commentary The Gospel of John (Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman, 2015) in the Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament (EGGNT) series, and is used with permission.

      The translations of ancient documents (including the New Testament) are mine, unless indicated.

      I am most grateful to Dr. D. Christopher Spinks, one of the editors at Cascade Books of Wipf and Stock Publishers, for his careful and efficient guidance of this little book through the publication process.

      Abbreviations

      In the endnotes of this book, customary and well-known abbreviations for reference works, periodicals, biblical and non-biblical references, and English translations have been used. If readers are in any doubt about any abbreviations, they should consult The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies, ed. P. H. Alexander et al. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999).

      In references to BDAG the letters a, b, c, d denote the four quadrants of the page cited.

      Here is the Greek text of John

      3

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      16

      as printed by Nestle-Aland (

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      th ed.) and UBS (

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      th ed.).

      Ou[twj ga.r hvga,phsen o` qeo.j to.n ko,smon( w[ste to.n ui`o.n to.n monogenh/ e;dwken( i[na pa/j o` pisteu,wn eivj auvto.n mh. avpo,lhtai avllV e;ch| zwh.n aivw,nion

      Introduction

      Some memorable sentences are brief and historically poignant, such as I have a dream (Martin Luther King), or Et tu, Brute? (Julius Caesar, according to William Shakespeare).

      Some are longer and amusing, such as Groucho Marx’s quip, I never forget a face, but in your case I’d be glad to make an exception, or Oscar Wilde’s wisecrack, Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

      Still other sentences are proverbial and are associated with key historical figures, such as Winston Churchill’s insight, A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty, or John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s challenge, My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

      But perhaps no sentence is more famous than that found in the third chapter and sixteenth verse of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Bible (John 3:16). The aim of this work is to examine in detail this crucial sentence that was first written in Greek but now has been translated into hundreds of world languages.

      The pattern of this book is simple. In considering the meaning of any sentence, it is necessary to give attention to the wider and the narrower literary context of the sentence, for foreign ideas can easily be read into a statement when it is considered out of its context. Then follows an examination of each word and phrase in the sentence. This leads into some final comments about John

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