(Ver. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. One must be born again. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. 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. 2. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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 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). It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 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 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. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. 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." (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. 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. 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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Copy Print Similar Verses Save Share This Verse: Translation Details for John 4:16 1 John 4:16-19. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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 Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. 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. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. He was God. 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. 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 He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. 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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come 17 This is how love is made complete Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. 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." Deeper questions demanded solution. (e.g. infinite truth! 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. 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. 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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! 17 This is how love is The result immediately follows. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. (Ver. John 4:19-20. 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). 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. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." (ver. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. Do any believe on His name? 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. (Ver. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. 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. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. (Ed. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Proud member 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. Very simple words! "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. 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. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 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. Web1. No man hath seen God at any time. 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. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! 18 The fact (Ver. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. 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. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 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. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. 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. 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