Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. 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. 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." Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in 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. , , , , , because ye think in them ye have eternal life. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 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. 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. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. (Ver. John 5:39-47 Search the Scriptures. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. John 6. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. (2) Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and that is surrounded by five covered colonnades. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. They did indeed search the Scriptures . So only is man born of God. John 5:39. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. I know that you do not have the love of God . 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. Commentary on John 5:39-44. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Sermon Bible Commentary. 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 would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. Then (ver. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. 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. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 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. 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." 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. 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." (Verses John 7:40-53). VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. (Ver. 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. 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. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 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. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Robert Clayton (ISBN 9781170941003) osoitteesta Adlibris.fi. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. 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. 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. John 5:19-29 Four Types of Resurrections. 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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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. (Ver. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. JOHN 5 COMMENTARY. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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. 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. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Resume Prayer. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. John 5:39-40 Searching Scripture and finding Christ I. 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. 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. website along with the . Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 1. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. And they are they which testify concerning me. When we use the term "Scriptures," we are referring to the entire Bible. 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. 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. 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. 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. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. But the meaning here is, that they imagined, by having these writings in their hands, and by their reading them, and hearing them expounded every sabbath day, they should obtain and inherit everlasting life: hence they call F18 the law eternal life, and say F19 concerning the reading of it, that. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. . John 5. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. Join Profs. That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. 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). Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. John 4. Verses 39 and 40 summarize a crucial point about the difference between faith and belief. I. Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 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. 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. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 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? None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: ego de lego ( 1SPAI) umin me antistenai ( AAN) to ponero; all' ostis se rapizei ( 3SPAI) eis ten dexian siagona [sou], strepson ( 2SAAM) auto kai ten allen. What sayest thou of thyself? It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. 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. 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. Read full chapter. ( John 5:1-4) The pool of Bethesda. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. "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." 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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. 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 . 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 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. No charge could be remoter from the truth. 4 5 One man was there who had been an . 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. (Ver. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. 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. 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. Hinta: 23,80 . International Bible Study Commentary. Verse 39. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 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. Glory would be displayed in its day. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. 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). It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? 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 . As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Nor could any question be more momentous. 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. John 5. Verse 5:4. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. (ver. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 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. John 8:31-James : . 39 You study[ a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:31-59. What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. Check out LPL Financial Research's Weekly Commentary on the market: "Debt Ceiling Primer". 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. Verse 39. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 42). God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. He tells Philip to follow Him. Clarke's Commentary. (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. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . 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. 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 . The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. 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. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 4.16.6 Fixed npm-shrinkwrap.json support in --update-db (by Geoff Newman). His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. This we have had fully before. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Ye do search the Scriptures, and ye do well to do so. The call of four fishermen. 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.". (Ver. Verse 40. Sermon Brainwave 891: Second Sunday In Lent - March 5, 2023. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. For He who spoke was divine. John Chapter 5 Bible Study Questions (Handout) JOHN 5:1-2 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.