And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
JOHN 3:14-15 NKJV
John 3:14 Every time the words lifted up occur in the Gospel of John there is a reference to Jesus’ death (8:28; 12:32, 34). When Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness (Num. 21:9), those who looked at it lived. So it is with the Son of Man (1:51). Look and live! Look to the Lamb of God!
John 3:15 This is the first time eternal life is mentioned in John’s Gospel (4:36; 5:39; 6:54, 68; 10:28; 12:25; 17:2, 3). When a person trusts Christ, he or she is born again and receives eternal and spiritual life, God’s kind of life. The focus is not on our faith but on Christ, the object of our faith. Faith doesn’t save. It is the channel to the One who saves—Christ.
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