# Be Ready - Sunday, 2026.01.11 ## tl;dr - Those of us who believe in Jesus have eternal life {36} - Those who reject Jesus can never escape the Father's wrath {36} - The Father gives the Spirit without limit {34} ## Context ### Book {John} - The 43rd book in the Bible - The fourth gospel in the NT, but not a synoptic version like the other three ### Chapter {John 3} - Jesus and Nicodemus {1 - 21} - John’s Testimony about Jesus {22 - 36} ## Observations - This note focuses on verses 22-36 - The last half of the section is a quote from John the Baptist talking about Jesus - There are five occurrences of "God" in the BSB version of John's speech. However, there are only four occurrences of [[G2316]]. The BSB chose to substitute "God" for the subject in the last phrase the verse 34. The germane verses: - Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that **God** is truthful. {33} - For the One whom **God** has sent speaks the words of **God**, for **God** gives the Spirit without limit. {34} - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of **God** remains on him. {36} ## Questions - To which entity of the Trinity does each occurrence of God refer? ## Interpretations {33} - "God" refers to the Father - Based on the context of the whole paragraph, the pronoun "His" refers to Jesus - It makes the most sense that "God" refers to The Father - Certify that God is truthful - Unrelated to this study, but nevertheless very noteworthy is a statement about those of us who accept Jesus' testimony about what He has seen and heard: - "has certified that God is truthful" - Various translations of "certified" - certified (NIV, BSB, NASB, MSB) - affirm / has affirmed (NLT, CSB) - sets his seal / sealed (ESV, BLB, KJB, LSB, WEB, LSV) - has confirmed (NET) - [[777]] - Lord, I am still not sure what this verse means. Please explain it to me {34} - The two actual occurrences of G2316 refer to The Father - The pronoun used as the subject in the last phrase is more challenging. About half of the various other translations I use chose to use "God" as the subject and the other half chose to use the pronoun "He." - God (NIV, NLT, BSB, KJB, NSB, WEB, LSV) - He (ESV, BLB, NASB, LSB, CSB, NET) - Based on the rest of the section and paragraph, I will assume the subject refers to The Father regardless of the translation {35} - God refers to The Father - I suspect that this verse is one of them that fuels the debate about what happens to us when we die - For those of us who believe in Jesus, we get eternal life; but what exactly is eternal life? - [[777]] - Lord, please clarify what "eternal life" means - On the other hand, it seems clear that those who reject Jesus can never escape the Father's wrath ## Application - Finish adding the references to all 1327 occurrences of Strong's [[G2316]] in the [[God_G2316_Summary]] ## Correction As always, I am open to scripture-based correction.