Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 122
? 115 Similarly, it is said: "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. " (John 3:17) Here again, Messiah calls himself the Son of God the Supreme. At the same time he has said something which is inconsistent with another statement ascribed to him by the New Testament. Here he says: "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. " On another occasion, however, he says (Luke, 20: 9-16) in the course of a parable— the parable of the garden: “Then began he to speak to the people this parable; a certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen beat him and sent him away empty. And again, he sent another servant; and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again, he sent a third; and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Then said the lord of the vineyard, "What shall I do?” I will send my beloved son, it may be they will reverence him when they see him. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, this is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be