They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Why should He not show Himself to the world? Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. To have righteousness we (Verses John 5:17-18). 42 And he brought him to Jesus. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! John was not yet cast into prison. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. WebLuke 4:16.As to the relation of the following incident to the similar one in Matthew 13:53 ff., Mark 6:1 ff., see on Matthew. 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). (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 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. He distinguishes between seducing spirits, and faithful ministers of the word; the former are of the world, speak of worldly things, and worldly men hear them; but the latter are of God, and they that have any spiritual knowledge of God hear them; but such as are not of God do not heal them, by which may he known the spirit of truth from the spirit of error, 1Jo 4:5,6. (Ver. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. he would not. 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. (e.g. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. 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." 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). Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. The Father and the Son were at work. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. All rights reserved. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. : a Jewish prophet who according to Gospel accounts foretold Jesus' messianic ministry and baptized him. 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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. The apostle attests this. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." What love! Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 17 And as we live "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. (ver. Art thou Elias? Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. (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. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. 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. And so, in fact, it was and is. John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. 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. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 18 The fact "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 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. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Alas! 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. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Glory would be displayed in its day. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. 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. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Author. John 4:19-20. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. (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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. This is grace and truth. John 4:16. Webnoun Slang. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more GOD LOVES YOU. "He must, increase, but I decrease." None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. Pilate, disposed to gratify the It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 1 John 4:19. 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. 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. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Also called john mule . "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." He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. He tells Philip to follow Him. , , . The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. This would make all manifest. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 3. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. We love him, because he first loved us. 3 Reasons Proverbs 23:7 Says 'As a Man Thinks, So He Is'. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Alas! And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. (Verses John 7:40-53). As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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