Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than . (Ver. Honored (1-3) John 11 presents the longest miracle narrative in the Gospel of John. John 5:28-30 Resurrection. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. (Verse John 3:10). John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). " Known in several other forms, it is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Scripture is, or may be, before man always. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. Verses 5:5, 6, 7, 8. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. 5:39 The indicative of eJrauna'te fits the context better (indicative and imperative forms are the same here). 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). To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. I know that you do not have the love of God . But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Jesus gives us these contrasts - between old and new wine, between old and new garments - and this helps us to understand that the future will not be the same as the present. International Bible Lesson. Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. Amen. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. Commentary on John 5:39-44 (Read John 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. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. English Standard Version. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 42). Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. INTRODUCTION: Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale about a young woman who was tested to determine whether or not she was truly a princess. Verse 42. Friday, April 15, 2022. For He who spoke was divine. 1. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. (Ed. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. But the Scriptures point to me! John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. 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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Man is morally judged. Changelog Sourced from browserslist's changelog. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. 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. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. We've got Meb Faber back on the show to nominally talk about trend following - but as often happens with Meb - we get into a bunch from global equity . it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. Verse 3. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. John 5:39-40: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.". John 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. There He supposes His full rejection and death. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Luke 5 - Disciples Are Called A. And he saith, I am not. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. ON THE AIR. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. The call of four fishermen. John 5. John 4. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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 . (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. (John 12:48). This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. . He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Leftists Backtrack on Being Wrong About Wuhan Lab Leak Former Communist from East Germany Warns Americans About the Nightmare of Living Under Authoritarian Rule Russia Warms to China as Zelensky Insists Sending America's "Sons & Daughters" to DIE For NATO - FULL SHOW 03/01/23 EcoHealth Alliance Whistleblower: I Believe Ukraine Conflict . Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." John 5:39-40 NLT. Exegetical Commentary on John 5. John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. John 5:31-38 Bear Witness. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. You may be familiar with the story: "The Princess and the Pea". All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Join Profs. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. (3) Here a great number of disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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 truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. So only is man born of God. Bumps browserslist from 4.8.3 to 4.16.6. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. (Read John 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. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." We look at how God defines salvation and work through the . The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. 2 Now there is . He that comes from above from heaven is above all. This He does in verses 16-19. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. John was not yet cast into prison. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Si nous voulons avoir cognoissance de Christ. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. 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. Here we can see a glimpse of the promise by Jesus of eternal life. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. 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. , , . Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Hinta: 23,80 . This would make all manifest. How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . John 4. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. How was this? The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." 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.