(Ver. (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? 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 would not. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. Of this we learn nothing, here. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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. It was not so. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." 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. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 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. Very simple words! Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This we have had fully before. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. (Ver. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Do any believe on His name? The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. John 4:19-20. 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. 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Then (ver. Web1. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. 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." Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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. The author is the apostle John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (13:23 [see note there]; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20,24). Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. ", 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, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Tout ainsi que la terre, pour apporter fruict, sera menuisee et amollie par le soc de la charrue. 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). In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. 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. 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. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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 Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." 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. And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. 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. (John 12:48). God is love. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Web1. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Such shall live. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. 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. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 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. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). For The Baltimore Sun. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." ii. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Man is morally judged. (ver. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 18 The fact God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. How can such have relationship with God? It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? 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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 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). The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. (Ver. go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. (Ver. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? 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. 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. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. john 8 32) 1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 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. What love! The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. So only is man born of God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. (Ver. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. 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. 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? infinite truth! Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." 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. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." "He must, increase, but I decrease." And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. The question really is, whether man would trust God. This He does in verses 16-19. You are right when you say you have no husband. (Verses John 5:17-18). 1. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. NIV. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. 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. 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. 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. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 1 John 4:19. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. 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. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. How withering the words! 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. (Ver. 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. "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." The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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. , 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 All rights reserved. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 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. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). What a witness all this to His person! 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. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. (Ed. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. One must be born again. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. This would make all manifest. Nor could any question be more momentous. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. (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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 1 John 4:16-19. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Also called john mule . Here the Lord introduces the cross. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. 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. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 1 John 4:19. 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. 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! 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. (Ver. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. (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. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 3. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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