This is grace and truth. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. And he answered, No. 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. 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. 39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. 4. English Standard Version. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Choose a verse from 'John 5' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org . "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." "Master, eat," said they. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Alas! He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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. Knowing the scriptures does not save you. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. 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. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. website along with the . John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. I fear that many of you who hear my voice week after week, and have learned the scriptures, are relying on faithful attendance on Sunday morning, and your knowledge of the scriptures that you have gained for your salvation. John 5:39-40 . (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. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Do they receive Him not? It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. (ver. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. What sayest thou of thyself? Exegetical Commentary on John 5. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? (Ver. Luke 5:33-39. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (Ver. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. 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. They are rejecting Jesus and His message (John 5: . There is a crying need today for people to seek out the wisdom of God as revealed in His Scriptures and make application of it in their lives. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 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. 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. John 5:39-47 Search the Scriptures. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. John 3:1-36 follows this up. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. 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. When we use the term "Scriptures," we are referring to the entire Bible. Join Profs. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. (Ver. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. How truly it is man under law! After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. John 5:39. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. But the Scriptures point to me! Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? John 5:1-13 Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Includes commnetary, questions, outline, and applications on John chapter 5:19-47 encouraging life change. (John 5:19 .) How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 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. 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 president of the United Church of Christ writes to say he doesn't recognize the Christianity espoused by, and used as a defense for, the actions of Florida Gov. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. through "sin." Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 6:1-14 Philip Fails the Exam . By . And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." In his letter to the BCA in March 2022, Mr. Moreton stated he was living in Rutland, but he was going to rehabilitate his seasonal camp into a year-round home and be living there by the end of that summer. 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY) IYA AUCKLAND (650 k.c. The Father and the Son were at work. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Search the Scriptures Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly, to their own scriptures, which, for further proof, and their full satisfaction, he desires them to search, because these writings, as they justly supposed, contained the knowledge . But it is important we should know how He entered the world. John 4. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. International Bible Study Commentary. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. Bumps browserslist from 4.8.3 to 4.16.6. Verse 1. I would render John 5:39 this way: The context makes it unmistakably clear that is Jesus' observation about the current occupation of those to whom he is speaking, not his instruction for them to go and be so occupied.. One has to be careful not to coerce the scriptures to support personal points of view. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. John 5. . (Verses John 7:40-53). For He who spoke was divine. 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. (Ver. John 5:39New International Version. (Ver. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. "The law was given by Moses." You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. 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. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. "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." This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 53rd verse of chapter 39 ( srat l-zumar ). It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. John 8:31-James : . The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. Deeper questions demanded solution. Observe: not which was, but "which is." There was purpose in it. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. This we have had fully before. John 5. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! (Read John 5:39-44) The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. John 5:39-40. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those. Glory would be displayed in its day. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. 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.