Matthew Henry on Jn 1:29.

Matthew Henry writes on Jn 1:29: “This is encouraging to our faith; if Christ takes away the sin of the world, then why not my sin?”  Why not indeed?  The People’s New Testament views Jesus as the world’s Saviour.  Here “the world,” means “the world,” humanity, all mankind.  A. T. Robertson makes the point that “He is the Lamb of God for the world, not just for Jews.”[1]  The juxtaposition of “the world” and “the Jews” suggests that in distinction to “the Jews,” which is a particular nation, “the world” is the cosmos in all its rich universality. 

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[1]    A T Robertson, Word Pictures of the New Testament.