No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as It was not that they were better than their neighbours. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. (Ver. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! He who How withering the words! 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. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. "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 effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. (Ver. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. NIV. 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. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." "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." It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. 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. (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. 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. (Ver. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. (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. Nay, "the world knew him not." 9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. 18 There is no 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). It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. 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. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Pilate, disposed to gratify the 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. 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). And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the What a witness all this to His person! The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. How was this? 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. 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. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. - Now Jesus knew (perceived by his Divine penetration of human thought here quickened by their anxious look and hurried whisperings) that they were wishing to question him, and he said to them, Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little while, etc. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. 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." 3. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. (ver. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Web1. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. (John 12:48). 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. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. 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. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." , 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 We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. He was God. (ver. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 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. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. How can such have relationship with God? As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 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. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Do any believe on His name? WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. The author is the apostle John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (13:23 [see note there]; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20,24). But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. Because he would put a difference between his baptism and that of John, who baptized all himself; for he baptized as a servant, Christ as a master. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. God is love. 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. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Of this we learn nothing, here. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. 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