ON THE AIR. How truly it is man under law! Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. This would make all manifest. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. John 5 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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). 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 evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in th. John 5:39 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. "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." He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. ON THE AIR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 March 1945, Page 6 It was sabbath-day. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. A Dissertation on Prophecy, Wherein the Coh]rence and Connexion of the 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Honored (1-3) John 11 presents the longest miracle narrative in the Gospel of John. 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. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. A person who refuses to believe cannot be convinced, no matter what evidence they are given (John 5:40). 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 6:1-14 Philip Fails the Exam . 8. Exegetical Commentary on John 5 | Bible.org "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. There He supposes His full rejection and death. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. of And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 42). Verses 5:5, 6, 7, 8. ON THE AIR. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? He acts as such. Bible Study Courses John 5:31-47 Exploring the Passage Verse 43. 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. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 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. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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). (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. Includes commnetary, questions, outline, and applications on John chapter 5:19-47 encouraging life change. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. 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). But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. And so, in fact, it was and is. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. 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. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; John 5:27. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Knowing the scriptures does not save you. for he knew He was the Christ. )7.30: Studio recital by Maurice Turley (boy singer). It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 'You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. John Hensman on LinkedIn: How Do Wastewater Treatment Plants Work? Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Amen. The Scriptures teach the way of life, and it is our duty to study them. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. And he saith, I am not. Verse 5:4. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. 3. All rights reserved. (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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. WITNESS. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Some thoughts on today's scripture. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. You still don't have enough Trend Following or Foreign Equity exposure Bible Study Courses John 5:1-30 Exploring the Passage 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. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. Verse 39. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. The question really is, whether man would trust God. , , , , , because ye think in them ye have eternal life. That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with . b. b. 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. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. (John 5:19 .) 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. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Art thou Elias? How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. "The Center of Scripture" John 5:39-40 (What Jesus Did!) - Heartlight Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. John 5:19-47 Bible Study and Questions For Small Groups THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL 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." So only is man born of God. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? Verse 39. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all 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. (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. One must be born again. Verse 4. . 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. John 5:26-27 Son of Man. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 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. John 5 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, Read full chapter. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and 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. that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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. 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." Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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. Verse 3. 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (Ver. This we have had fully before. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. And he answered, No. Friday, April 15, 2022. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. "The law was given by Moses." John 5:25. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. John MacDonald, CFP, ChFC's Post - LinkedIn But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."
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