Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. Luke 5 - Disciples Are Called A. that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. (ver. 'You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. 00:00:00 / 00:29:15. The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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. "He must, increase, but I decrease." And they are they which testify concerning me. 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 4. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 42). . 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. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Verse 5:4. 5. John 5:39 Context. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. 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. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 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. All rights reserved. John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. John 5:24 . His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Proud member of To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. (Ver. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. This is grace and truth. 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. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Search the Scriptures Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly, to their own scriptures, which, for further proof, and their full satisfaction, he desires them to search, because these writings, as they justly supposed, contained the knowledge . (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 4. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood-thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently.That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with the following verse, nor can the force and energy of the . The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. (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 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. 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. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 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. Man is morally judged. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. John 5. Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. 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. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:31-59. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with . (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in th. 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. He saw him under the fig tree. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. John 5:39-40: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.". Verse 4. . (Ver. 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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? John 5:39New International Version. John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. COMMENTARY ON THE Gospel of St. John by Anonymous - $70.39. Art thou Elias? I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." When we use the term "Scriptures," we are referring to the entire Bible. Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary; John; Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary John 5. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. 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. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Verse 39. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? through "sin." Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Second Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 5, 2023. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 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. Robert Clayton (ISBN 9781170941003) osoitteesta Adlibris.fi. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 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. 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. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Hinta: 23,80 . Chapter 5. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Leftists Backtrack on Being Wrong About Wuhan Lab Leak Former Communist from East Germany Warns Americans About the Nightmare of Living Under Authoritarian Rule Russia Warms to China as Zelensky Insists Sending America's "Sons & Daughters" to DIE For NATO - FULL SHOW 03/01/23 EcoHealth Alliance Whistleblower: I Believe Ukraine Conflict . They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. (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. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. And he saith, I am not. Now they testify about me; (40) but you will not come to me so that you may receive life. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. 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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. WITNESS. (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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. (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. But the meaning here is, that they imagined, by having these writings in their hands, and by their reading them, and hearing them expounded every sabbath day, they should obtain and inherit everlasting life: hence they call F18 the law eternal life, and say F19 concerning the reading of it, that. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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. 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." I. Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." John 5:39-40 NLT. Verse 1. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. And in this He is sovereign. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. But the Scriptures point to me! 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. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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. (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? 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. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. 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. Sermon Bible Commentary. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Join Profs. 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. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. [Jesus continued,] "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. 4 5 One man was there who had been an . (Verse John 3:10). Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. We look at how God defines salvation and work through the . "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Verse 40. John 5:19-25 Father and Son. b. 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. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." John 5:28-30 Resurrection. 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. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. (Ver. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he . So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. (ver. 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). John 5:39-40New King James Version. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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." Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not 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. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 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. Using the Bible to impress others rather than to grow in humility and love for God will keep you from faith in Christ (5:39-42). 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. One must be born again. Verse 2. John. 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 . What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Si nous voulons avoir cognoissance de Christ. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. (Ver. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Then (ver. 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. "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and 115718567810 " Known in several other forms, it is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. 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. It was sabbath-day. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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 . Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. John 5:39-47 Search the Scriptures. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. 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.