John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. 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. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. (39) Search the scriptures.--Better, Ye search the Scriptures. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:31-59. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. John 5:39-40. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent 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. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. There was purpose in it. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. (John 5:19 .) Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not 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. (e.g. The Father seeks worshippers. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. They did indeed search the Scriptures . I know that you do not have the love of God . Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL 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. John 5:39-40. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). John 8:31-James : . He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. (Ed. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. 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. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. 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. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Nor could any question be more momentous. 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." Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Second Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 5, 2023. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 5:39 The indicative of eJrauna'te fits the context better (indicative and imperative forms are the same here). We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Proud member 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. (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. John 4. But the Scriptures point to me! 1. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. b. [Jesus continued,] "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. (Ver. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 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. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Verse 43. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. He also stated he had engaged several contractors, one of which was supposedly set to begin work "in the next week or two.". And they asked him, What then? That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. John 5:19-25 Father and Son. Chapter 5. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 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. 1. Exegetical Commentary on John 5. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 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. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Sermon Brainwave 891: Second Sunday In Lent - March 5, 2023. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Why should He not show Himself to the world? (Ver. 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Alas! His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. This we have had fully before. Matthew 5:39 "But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 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." John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Verse 39. (ver. Do not resist evil. (1-3) Jesus teaches from a boat. Honored (1-3) John 11 presents the longest miracle narrative in the Gospel of John. This is grace and truth. Verse 39. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). John was not yet cast into prison. Robert Clayton (ISBN 9781170941003) osoitteesta Adlibris.fi. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. He was God. 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. Verse 41. They are rejecting Jesus and His message (John 5: . Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. One must be born again. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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." This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with . 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. Using the Bible to impress others rather than to grow in humility and love for God will keep you from faith in Christ (5:39-42). And he saith, I am not. and they are they which testify of me; as they do of his proper deity and divine sonship, calling him Jehovah, God, the mighty God, and the Son of God; and of his offices as prophet, priest, and King; and of his incarnation of a virgin; and of the tribe, family, and place of his birth; of the miracles which he should work; of the treatment he should meet with from men; of his sufferings and death; of the circumstances leading on to them, and attending them; as his riding on an ass into Jerusalem, the betraying him by one of his familiar acquaintance, the selling him for thirty pieces of silver, the spitting upon, and scourging him, giving him gall for his meat, and vinegar for his drink, and parting his garments, and casting lots for his vesture, and the crucifixion of him, and that between two thieves; and of his burial, resurrection from the dead, ascension to heaven, and session at the right hand of God, and of his future coming to judgment. The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . All rights reserved. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. 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. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. (3) Here a great number of disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralyzed. through "sin." 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. Resume Prayer. Verse 42. But let them beware how they perverted it. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. infinite truth! I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. To achieve eternal life in the . Clarke's John 5:39 Bible Commentary Search the Scriptures - . He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. John 5:25. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. English Standard Version. (Ver. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. (Ver. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. John 5:39New International Version. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Recorded via Riverside on Feb. 3, 2023, for Working Preacher. 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. How truly it is man under law! Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Grab your favorite trucker hat/baseball cap, and settle in for this episode where Jeff picks Meb Faber's @MebFaber brain on everything from skiing to picking an investment advisor because they can get you on at Riviera Country Club. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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 . Such shall live. John 5. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. How can such have relationship with God? After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. John 5:28-30 Resurrection. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. a. Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than . (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Verse . Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. (Ver. 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. COMMENTARY ON THE Gospel of St. John by Anonymous - $70.39. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. 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. (Verse John 3:10). Of this we learn nothing, here. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. All is in the character of the Son of man. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. "The law was given by Moses." If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. ON THE AIR. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. , , . They had the Scriptures, and they searched them. 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. 2 Now there is . And such was Jesus. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. He has not placed his salvation in sacraments, or books, or priests, but he has kept it in himself; and if you want to have it you must come to him." (Spurgeon) ii. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." . John 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible. 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. From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. 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. Jesus heals an invalid on the SabbathHe explains why men must honor the SonJesus promises to take the gospel to the deadMan is resurrected, judged, and assigned his glory by the SonJesus obeys the divine law of witnesses. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Changelog Sourced from browserslist's changelog. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. JOHN 5 COMMENTARY. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.