The Apostle John uses another verb besides saying that the Father “has granted the Son to have life in himself.” He describes Jesus in John 3:16 as being the “uniquely existing” Son of God. This term in Greek (monogenes) has sometimes been rendered to mean “only begotten.” The message of John 3:16 is that God gave his monogenes Son, the only self-existent God who has life in himself, for the salvation of human beings whom he described as “his people.”
