"He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Man is morally judged. 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 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. A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. Read full chapter. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 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." All this clearly goes down to millennial days. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. 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. 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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 64). Jesus Walks on the Sea. 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." 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. 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 was in the world, and the world was made by him." He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. (Ver. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, 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. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 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. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. How striking the omission! If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 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 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." Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. 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. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. through "sin." For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. 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. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. If He judges, it is not without full warning. And they asked him, What then? Deeper questions demanded solution. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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? "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. John 5. (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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. (Ver. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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 6:16. 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. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! (Ver. (ver. he departed again into a mountain, himself Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. For He who spoke was divine. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John 7. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal 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." Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. (Ver. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. . Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. (John 12:48). that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. 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. John 6:15 in all English translations. 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. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. (ver. A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. 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. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. Read full chapter. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? What love! He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. 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. 1. 4. He was God. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. Art thou Elias? John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. 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. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went Verse John 6:15. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Clarke's Commentary. 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 distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. 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. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. 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. 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. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. "Master, eat," said they. (Ed. 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. John 3:1-36 follows this up. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. 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. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. How withering the words! John was not yet cast into prison. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. (Verses John 1:44-51). he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. 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. No charge could be remoter from the truth. 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. 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. 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. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Nay, "the world knew him not." mountain alone". Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of 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. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 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