. 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. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. Art thou that prophet? Amen. 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. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and 115718567810 At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. (Ver. ON THE AIR. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. (Ver. Nor could any question be more momentous. He was God. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary; John; Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary John 5. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 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. (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? They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. Then (ver. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 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. (Ver. International Bible Study Commentary. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. 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. 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. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. What sayest thou of thyself? Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. And such was Jesus. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." Commentary on John 5:39-44. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! Verse 39. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? the 'bad people' and 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. 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. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. John was not yet cast into prison. John 5:39-40New King James Version. 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. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. (Ver. 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. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. Research news, charts, stock market performance and earnings. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! John 5. How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life . TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. 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. 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. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts 1 1. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. John 8:31-James : . 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. (Ver. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." 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Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. 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." John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 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. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 1. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. 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. 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. 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. Believers Delivered from. 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. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 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. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. 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. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. (3) Here a great number of disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralyzed. The Father and the Son were at work. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? Glory would be displayed in its day. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 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. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. Jesus gives us these contrasts - between old and new wine, between old and new garments - and this helps us to understand that the future will not be the same as the present. Search the Scriptures . 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. How truly it is man under law! John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. "He must, increase, but I decrease." 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. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Do they receive Him not? We've got Meb Faber back on the show to nominally talk about trend following - but as often happens with Meb - we get into a bunch from global equity . (John 5:19 .) Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 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. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. This we have had fully before. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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. (Ver. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. He tells Philip to follow Him. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Verse (39:53) - English Translation. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. 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. 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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."
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