John 13:3 says the Son had "come forth from God and was going to God."
By that John meant “coming forth” as a reference to the Son having "come forth" from God the Father, I.e., when the Son was procreated, begotten in the womb of his mother (Mat 1.20; Luke 1.35).
NOTE the same use of the Greek word (exerchomai) in Matthew 2:6, "to come forth from physically, arise from, to be born of: ἐκ with the genitive of the place from which one comes by birth" (Thayer's Greek).
Also, "to come into the world" is a well-established Hebrew idiom for someone who is born. As the noted Evangelical scholar G.E. Ladd says in A Theology of the NT, 1993, p. 261.
“The earth is frequently referred to as the dwelling place of humanity in language that is paralleled in Jewish idiom: coming into the world (John 6.14; 9.39; 11.27; 18.37), being in the world (9.5a), departing out of the world (13.1; 16.28b)....the idiom itself is familiar Jewish terminology. To come into the world means merely to be born; to be in the world is to exist; and to depart from the world is to die."
For more see: H. Sasse, TDNT 3:888; see also 1Jn. 4.1,17; 2Jn7; Heb 10.5; 1Tim 1.15; Morris, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, The Gospel According to St. Luke, Vol. 3, p. 73; Godet, A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Vol. 1, pp 91-93.
By that John meant “coming forth” as a reference to the Son having "come forth" from God the Father, I.e., when the Son was procreated, begotten in the womb of his mother (Mat 1.20; Luke 1.35).
NOTE the same use of the Greek word (exerchomai) in Matthew 2:6, "to come forth from physically, arise from, to be born of: ἐκ with the genitive of the place from which one comes by birth" (Thayer's Greek).
Also, "to come into the world" is a well-established Hebrew idiom for someone who is born. As the noted Evangelical scholar G.E. Ladd says in A Theology of the NT, 1993, p. 261.
“The earth is frequently referred to as the dwelling place of humanity in language that is paralleled in Jewish idiom: coming into the world (John 6.14; 9.39; 11.27; 18.37), being in the world (9.5a), departing out of the world (13.1; 16.28b)....the idiom itself is familiar Jewish terminology. To come into the world means merely to be born; to be in the world is to exist; and to depart from the world is to die."
For more see: H. Sasse, TDNT 3:888; see also 1Jn. 4.1,17; 2Jn7; Heb 10.5; 1Tim 1.15; Morris, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, The Gospel According to St. Luke, Vol. 3, p. 73; Godet, A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Vol. 1, pp 91-93.
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