(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. (39) Search the scriptures.--Better, Ye search the Scriptures. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. Friday, April 15, 2022. 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. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? he would not. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. What a witness all this to His person! 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. 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. 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. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. John 5:24 . 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 is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. (Ver. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? They are rejecting Jesus and His message (John 5: . If He judges, it is not without full warning. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary; John; Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary John 5. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. the 'bad people' and And in this He is sovereign. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 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. But let them beware how they perverted it. John 5:26. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Nor could any question be more momentous. (Verses John 7:40-53). that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. Verse 41. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. (Ver. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. This is grace and truth. John 4. How can such have relationship with God? 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. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. "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." Grab your favorite trucker hat/baseball cap, and settle in for this episode where Jeff picks Meb Faber's @MebFaber brain on everything from skiing to picking an investment advisor because they can get you on at Riviera Country Club. Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of . 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. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; 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, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Si nous voulons avoir cognoissance de Christ. 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. Amen. . 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. 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. Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. Jesus gives us these contrasts - between old and new wine, between old and new garments - and this helps us to understand that the future will not be the same as the present. A person who refuses to believe cannot be convinced, no matter what evidence they are given (John 5:40). But the Scriptures point to me! His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Verse 43. 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. Nor was it yet complete. 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. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. The words may be rendered in the indicative, as an assertion, "ye do search the Scriptures": the Jews had the sacred oracles committed to them, and these they read, not only their kings, princes, and judges, but the common people, who brought up their children to the reading of them, and instructed them in them: and besides this, these writings were read, and expounded publicly in their synagogues every sabbath day; and at this time especially these records were examined, and particularly those of them which respected the Messiah, since there was now a general expectation of him: and certain it is, that the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, or the sanhedrim, were very much versed in the Scriptures, and could readily refer to those which concerned the Messiah; see an instance of this in ( Matthew 2:4-6 ) ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; not the doctrine of eternal life, nor the promises of it, nor the way to it; though all these are contained in them, and pointed out by them: for though life and immortality are brought to light by the Gospel, and the promise of eternal life belongs to the covenant of grace, and the way of life and righteousness by Christ is manifested without the law, and not by it; yet there is much of the Gospel, and an exhibition of the covenant of grace, and its promises, and Christ, the way of life, is directed to typically by the tree of life, and the brazen serpent, and other things in those writings. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Believers Delivered from. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." There He supposes His full rejection and death. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. (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. 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. Commentary on John 5:39-44 (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 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! (Ver. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Old Testament (I. Christ as Fulfilment of). Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 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. 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. This He does in verses 16-19. But the meaning here is, that they imagined, by having these writings in their hands, and by their reading them, and hearing them expounded every sabbath day, they should obtain and inherit everlasting life: hence they call F18 the law eternal life, and say F19 concerning the reading of it, that. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. 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. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. (Ver. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. ON THE AIR. 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 intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Verse 39. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Abstract:Editorial on the Research TopicHomeostasis and Allostasis of Thyroid Function A basic understanding of thyroid control involving pituitary thyrotropin (TSH) has become a There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." 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. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. 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. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. (John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. Verse . Proud member Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. But the Scriptures point to me! What love! Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Verse 2. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. And so, in fact, it was and is. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. (Ver. [Jesus continued,] "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. 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). that we may give an answer to them that sent us. (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? He also stated he had engaged several contractors, one of which was supposedly set to begin work "in the next week or two.". John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). When Jesus said, "You search the Scriptures" (John 5:39), the New Testament had not yet been written; the "Scriptures," which in the original language is (graphas) and literally means "writings," Jesus is referring to is just the Old Testament. All rights reserved. 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? The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 5:39. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Do I lose my ticket to heaven if I sin too much? . 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. Some thoughts on today's scripture. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. How striking the omission! So only is man born of God. 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. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. (Verses John 1:44-51). John 5:39-47 Search the Scriptures. 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. John 5:25. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . 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. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. We've got Meb Faber back on the show to nominally talk about trend following - but as often happens with Meb - we get into a bunch from global equity . VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. John 5:39 Context. 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. "He must, increase, but I decrease." This is a perfect illustration of John 15:5 where Jesus declared "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit (IN THIS CASE ABIDING WAS SIMPLY OBEYING), for apart from Me you can do nothing (EVEN FISHING - BUT . Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). Shakespeare's explanation was good John Kennedy, but my favourite is still the 5 year old's explanation of the dangers of email, e.g. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood-thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently.That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with the following verse, nor can the force and energy of the . We look at how God defines salvation and work through the . International Bible Study Commentary. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! , , . Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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 did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 39 You study[ a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. 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. He was God. No man hath seen God at any time. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Search the Scriptures . All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Free current stock price quotes and data for Umpqua Holdings Corp (UMPQ). Such shall live. 39. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Verse 5:4. Flesh and world are judged morally. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. John 5:31-38 Bear Witness. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. Hinta: 23,80 . 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. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Chapter 5. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). 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." 1. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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. 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. Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment."