How truly it is man under law! 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. Glory would be displayed in its day. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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). Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. 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). Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? (Ver. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. , , . They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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. 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. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. The Father and the Son were at work. 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. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. 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. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 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. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Nay, "the world knew him not." 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. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. For The Baltimore Sun. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. He was God. 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 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. NIV. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. (Verses John 1:44-51). They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. 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. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. One must be born again. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. The woman saith, Sir, I perceive thou art a prophet To find a person who was a perfect stranger, and who, on account of the national animosity, could not be suspected of The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Art thou Elias? He acts as such. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. (Verses John 4:31-38). Do any believe on His name? And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. And the chapter is closed with observing the contradiction there is between a profession of love to God, and hatred of the brethren, seeing God, who is invisible, cannot be loved, if brethren that are seen are hated; and also the commandment, that he that loves God should love his brother also, 1Jo 4:20,21. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. The apostle attests this. (Ver. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. 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. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Here the Lord introduces the cross. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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