he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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. 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. 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. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the (Ver. Do any believe on His name? All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. 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. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. 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. Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 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. (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? 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. for he knew He was the Christ. 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 John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, 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. "Master, eat," said they. 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. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. 2. The result immediately follows. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 64). And he saith, I am not. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Then (ver. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Alas! One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. 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. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. 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). 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. John 6:15 Context. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." [whose?] No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. 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. 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Such shall live. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. (Verse John 3:10). All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." But "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." No man hath seen God at any time. 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 Father and the Son were at work. 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, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. (Ver. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. 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. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? When Jesus therefore perceived. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: 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. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Jesus Walks on the Sea. "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." They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 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, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, En une ardeur de zele inconsidere et temeraire. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him 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. 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. 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or (Verses John 7:40-53). to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." A person (the bell ringer) would place a leather muffle over half of the bell's clapper. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). 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. 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. Verse 15. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to 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. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. How can such have relationship with God? How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? alone; "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (Ver. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. How truly it is man under law! And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. 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. 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. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. 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. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. (Ver. 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. through "sin." In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. 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. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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. 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. and inasmuch as death is the last enemy, the destruction of the remaining powers ("when he shall have destroyed all rule and authority and power") will have to be understood not as a final struggle beginning after the parousia, but as the definite victory of christ that has already begun in his cross and resurrection and exaltation (cf., e.g., 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! 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). He saw him under the fig tree. he departed again into a mountain, himself 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. (Ver. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Nor was it yet complete. Read full chapter. 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. 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show Here the Lord introduces the cross. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. John 6:15 in all English translations. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. (Verses John 4:31-38). And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. 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. 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