Verse 10
Impostors’ aims are ultimately selfish and destructive, but Jesus came to give life, not take it.
"The world still seeks its humanistic, political saviours-its Hitlers, its Stalins, its Maos, its Pol Pots-and only too late does it learn that they blatantly confiscate personal property (they come ’only to steal’), ruthlessly trample human life under foot (they come ’only . . . to kill’), and contemptuously savage all that is valuable (they come ’only . . . to destroy’)." [Note: Carson, The Gospel . . ., p. 385.]
Jesus on the other hand not only came to bring spiritual life to people, but He came to bring the best quality of life to them. The eternal life that Jesus imparts is not just long, but it is also rich. He did not just come to gain sheep but to enable His sheep to flourish and to enjoy contentment and every other legitimately good thing possible.
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