Sermon Bible Commentary. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. John 6:1-14 Philip Fails the Exam . (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. John 4. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Verse 42. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. (1-3) Jesus teaches from a boat. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. The Present Hour. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. By . Was my salvation real in the first place? (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . John 5:39 Context. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. (Ver. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. (John 12:48). It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. Search the Scriptures Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly, to their own scriptures, which, for further proof, and their full satisfaction, he desires them to search, because these writings, as they justly supposed, contained the knowledge . Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. 5. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 53rd verse of chapter 39 ( srat l-zumar ). This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. Lhetetn 5-7 arkipivss. Verses 39 and 40 summarize a crucial point about the difference between faith and belief. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." John 5:19-25 Father and Son. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." What a witness all this to His person! Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. You must be doing the will of the Father. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life . This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. One must be born again. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. (Verses John 1:44-51). Some thoughts on today's scripture. Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary; John; Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary John 5. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. All rights reserved. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. Nor could any question be more momentous. The Father seeks worshippers. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? "Master, eat," said they. (Ver. Controversy with the " Jews" who Believed. Many are convinced by this appeal. In his letter to the BCA in March 2022, Mr. Moreton stated he was living in Rutland, but he was going to rehabilitate his seasonal camp into a year-round home and be living there by the end of that summer. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. But "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ( ) the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." (Ver. Nor was it yet complete. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. COMMENTARY ON THE Gospel of St. John by Anonymous - $70.39. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). But the Scriptures point to me! Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. John. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and 115718567810 The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. But let them beware how they perverted it. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. (Ed. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. website along with the . (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:31-59. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. John 8:31-James : . (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Hinta: 23,80 . The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. , , , , , because ye think in them ye have eternal life. Do not resist evil. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Observe: not which was, but "which is." Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 5:39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. And they are they which testify concerning me. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). Verse 5:4. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. WITNESS. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Do I lose my ticket to heaven if I sin too much? In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. (Ver. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Luke 5:33-39. David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. ( John 5:1-4) The pool of Bethesda. "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out . How can such have relationship with God? The words may be rendered in the indicative, as an assertion, "ye do search the Scriptures": the Jews had the sacred oracles committed to them, and these they read, not only their kings, princes, and judges, but the common people, who brought up their children to the reading of them, and instructed them in them: and besides this, these writings were read, and expounded publicly in their synagogues every sabbath day; and at this time especially these records were examined, and particularly those of them which respected the Messiah, since there was now a general expectation of him: and certain it is, that the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, or the sanhedrim, were very much versed in the Scriptures, and could readily refer to those which concerned the Messiah; see an instance of this in ( Matthew 2:4-6 ) ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; not the doctrine of eternal life, nor the promises of it, nor the way to it; though all these are contained in them, and pointed out by them: for though life and immortality are brought to light by the Gospel, and the promise of eternal life belongs to the covenant of grace, and the way of life and righteousness by Christ is manifested without the law, and not by it; yet there is much of the Gospel, and an exhibition of the covenant of grace, and its promises, and Christ, the way of life, is directed to typically by the tree of life, and the brazen serpent, and other things in those writings. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." Verse 4. . Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. Osta kirja A Dissertation on Prophecy, Wherein the Coh]rence and Connexion of the Prophecies in Both the Old and New Testament Are Fully Considered; Together with an Explanation of the Revelation of St. John. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. John 4. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. Fritzsche, p. 21). John 5:39. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." (Ver. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" What sayest thou of thyself? John 5:14-18 Jesus Claims to be God. "The law was given by Moses." Friday, April 15, 2022. The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . Chapter 5. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. His Unity with the Father. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? John 5. (John 5:19 .) but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. This He does in verses 16-19. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than .

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