For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 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." In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. 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. 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 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. (John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have (1-3) Jesus teaches from a boat. And they asked him, What then? Verse . that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. Clarke's Commentary. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. This is a perfect illustration of John 15:5 where Jesus declared "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit (IN THIS CASE ABIDING WAS SIMPLY OBEYING), for apart from Me you can do nothing (EVEN FISHING - BUT . His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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." 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 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. 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. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 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. COMMENTARY ON THE Gospel of St. John by Anonymous - $70.39. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 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. Nay, "the world knew him not." 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. This 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). He was God. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. 39. 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. 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. They are rejecting Jesus and His message (John 5: . In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. 1. This we have had fully before. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. John 5:39-40New King James Version. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. 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. Ye do search the Scriptures, and ye do well to do so. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. (Ver. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. You must be doing the will of the Father. 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. The Father seeks worshippers. John 5. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. 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. 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. Do any believe on His name? How striking the omission! 5. john 8 32) John 5:39 (King James Version) 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. This He does in verses 16-19. 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. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. 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. 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. (Ver. He was God. . God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 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. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Man is morally judged. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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." Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. 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. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Honored (1-3) John 11 presents the longest miracle narrative in the Gospel of John. John 5:30-47 Blindness to the Truth of the Scriptures. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. The Scriptures teach the way of life, and it is our duty to study them. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. (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. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. When Jesus said, "You search the Scriptures" (John 5:39), the New Testament had not yet been written; the "Scriptures," which in the original language is (graphas) and literally means "writings," Jesus is referring to is just the Old Testament. Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. The result immediately follows. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. 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. The president of the United Church of Christ writes to say he doesn't recognize the Christianity espoused by, and used as a defense for, the actions of Florida Gov. Nor was it yet complete. of (Ver. Robert Clayton (ISBN 9781170941003) osoitteesta Adlibris.fi. The question whether the mood is imperative or indicative, whether we have here a commandment to examine the writings of the Old Testament canon, or a reference to their habit of doing so, is one which has been discussed through the whole history of New Testament exposition, and one on which the opinion of those best qualified to . Verse 4. . John was not yet cast into prison. 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. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. 3. (ver. To achieve eternal life in the . Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Amen. 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. Alas! After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. (ver. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 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. through "sin." The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 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." Sermon Brainwave 891: Second Sunday In Lent - March 5, 2023. Then (ver. 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. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. And he saith, I am not. 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. (ver. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Commentary on John 5:39-44. He also stated he had engaged several contractors, one of which was supposedly set to begin work "in the next week or two.". 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. John 5:14-18 Jesus Claims to be God. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL (Ver. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; John 5:27. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. infinite truth! Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. All is in the character of the Son of man. 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. Believers Delivered from. 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. And so, in fact, it was and is. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. John 5:39 Context. (John 5:19 .) Ron DeSantis. . John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . Research news, charts, stock market performance and earnings. And he answered, No. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 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. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. When we use the term "Scriptures," we are referring to the entire Bible. 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. * 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." 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. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. International Bible Study Forum. International Bible Study Commentary. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Do I lose my ticket to heaven if I sin too much? We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in th. 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. Get This Daily Devotional by Email. John 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. Hinta: 23,80 . "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. 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). 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. (412) Though Christ does not permit his people to repel violence by violence, yet he does not forbid them to endeavor to avoid an unjust attack. 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. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with .