- Posted
I must confess, I was a little puzzled at the reaction of the Jewish community to the movie The…
I doubt if there are any words of Jesus more widely quoted and better known than his little statement in John 3:16:For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.John 3:16 KJVIt is hard to grasp how a first-century Jew would have taken that. Listen to the emphasis. God so loved the world—not just the Israelites, and not just the Jews. And it is everlasting life we are talking about here, and it is for whosoever believes him, not just for the Jews.