John 4. 39 You study[ a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? John 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible. It was sabbath-day. 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. Verse (39:53) - English Translation. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 5:39-40New King James Version. There is a crying need today for people to seek out the wisdom of God as revealed in His Scriptures and make application of it in their lives. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." 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. It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. What love! So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." And they asked him, What then? And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. 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. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 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. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? John 5:26. From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." 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. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. 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. If He judges, it is not without full warning. For He who spoke was divine. 8.0: State Opera Orchestra 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. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. How can such have relationship with God? Then (ver. Verse 5:4. International Bible Study Forum. The Present Hour. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. website along with the . Alas! We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts 1 1. ( John 5:1-4) The pool of Bethesda. 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. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life . "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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). On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . 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 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. Chapter 5. 39 You study[ a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. (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. 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). Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. John 5:19-29 Four Types of Resurrections. Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." Amen. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. (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. Verse 41. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 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. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." But it is important we should know how He entered the world. John 5:14-18 Jesus Claims to be God. 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. John 5:39 Context. for he knew He was the Christ. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. (Ver. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. 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. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Exegetical Commentary on John 5. How striking the omission! But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood-thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently.That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with the following verse, nor can the force and energy of the . 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. 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. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. pokkari, 2010. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Choose a verse from 'John 5' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org . Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. 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. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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. the 'bad people' and But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. He was God. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. 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. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And in this He is sovereign. 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. 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). The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Get This Daily Devotional by Email. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! John chapter 5. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (Ver. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. (ver. Verse 39. No man hath seen God at any time. Nor could any question be more momentous. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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). (Ver. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. 41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Do I need to pray the prayer again?On this episode, we address the question, "Can You Lose Your Salvation?" We start by looking at some tough Scriptures and using the rest of the Bible as a commentary to understand some passages in Hebrews. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Following on from yesterday's share here is the wastewater treatment explanation, nice and simple as before. Bumps browserslist from 4.8.3 to 4.16.6. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Fritzsche, p. 21). (John 12:48). Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. JOHN 5 COMMENTARY. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. (Verses John 4:31-38). And this in consequence of divine influx, so that whoever receives the knowledges of good and truth with his supreme affection, or love, experiences purification from evil, and restoration of spiritual life. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. b. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 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. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. (Verse John 3:10). that we may give an answer to them that sent us. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. 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. 4. 1. Now they testify about me; (40) but you will not come to me so that you may receive life. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 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. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. Join Profs. 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. 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. b. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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." The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Do not resist evil. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. by . But the Scriptures point to me! (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Verse 3. 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. * 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." 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. 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. Controversy with the " Jews" who Believed. Many are convinced by this appeal. 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. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). 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. 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. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Verses 39 and 40 summarize a crucial point about the difference between faith and belief. (ver. Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. 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. (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? Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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? that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. 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." Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. Deeper questions demanded solution. Verse 39. Verse 43. (Ver. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.
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