"Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. 39. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. (John 12:48). it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. (2) Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and that is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Honored (1-3) John 11 presents the longest miracle narrative in the Gospel of John. 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. 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. (Verses John 7:40-53). He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. John 5:25. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." John 5:39-40 NLT. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. In verses 37 and 38, Jesus criticized the local religious leaders for never hearing the voice of God. 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. 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. Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Nor could any question be more momentous. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. I. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Ye do search the Scriptures, and ye do well to do so. Do any believe on His name? 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. 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! It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. of WITNESS. This would make all manifest. (39) Search the scriptures.--Better, Ye search the Scriptures. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 53rd verse of chapter 39 ( srat l-zumar ). For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Knowing the scriptures does not save you. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. (Ver. Abstract:Editorial on the Research TopicHomeostasis and Allostasis of Thyroid Function A basic understanding of thyroid control involving pituitary thyrotropin (TSH) has become a No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. And so, in fact, it was and is. 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." All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Why should He not show Himself to the world? It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Fritzsche, p. 21). "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." All rights reserved. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. John 3:1-36 follows this up. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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 . Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Of this we learn nothing, here. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. 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. ( John 5:1-4) The pool of Bethesda. 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. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Includes commnetary, questions, outline, and applications on John chapter 5:19-47 encouraging life change. But the Scriptures point to me! Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY) IYA AUCKLAND (650 k.c. 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. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). . 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. (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? If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! John 5:31-38 Bear Witness. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 1 t, I*-: I hilharmorut Orchestra "Baron Ncuh h;-> ' Suite (Mtlicnart T 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. 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 doctrines. John 5. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Verse 5:4. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. 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. This is grace and truth. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. If He judges, it is not without full warning. [Jesus continued,] "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! John 5:30-47 Blindness to the Truth of the Scriptures. 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. John 5:26. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Chapter 5. 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. (ver. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. 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? You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. 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. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? "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." 4.16.6 Fixed npm-shrinkwrap.json support in --update-db (by Geoff Newman). (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 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. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. 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. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. 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. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." The Present Hour. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." I know that you do not have the love of God . What a witness all this to His person! How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. John 5:39-40. 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 . 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. 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. Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. 42). 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. (412) Though Christ does not permit his people to repel violence by violence, yet he does not forbid them to endeavor to avoid an unjust attack. . 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. Do I need to pray the prayer again?On this episode, we address the question, "Can You Lose Your Salvation?" We start by looking at some tough Scriptures and using the rest of the Bible as a commentary to understand some passages in Hebrews. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Research news, charts, stock market performance and earnings. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Do they receive Him not? 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). He saw him under the fig tree. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have (John 5:19 .) THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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? Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. The question whether the mood is imperative or indicative, whether we have here a commandment to examine the writings of the Old Testament canon, or a reference to their habit of doing so, is one which has been discussed through the whole history of New Testament exposition, and one on which the opinion of those best qualified to . Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. One must be born again. John 5:39. Resume Prayer. Believers Delivered from. Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. 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. Such shall live. (Ver. John. Art thou Elias? (Verse John 3:10). That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with . What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. , , . (Ver. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. (Ver. John the Baptist was one such human witness, for He proclaimed: "This is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world." And both the Father and the Holy Sprit were heavenly witnesses of Jesus at His baptism in the Jordan (an act . It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). John 5:39-42New International Version. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. "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." This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. INTRODUCTION: Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale about a young woman who was tested to determine whether or not she was truly a princess. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Here the Lord introduces the cross. 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 had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. They had the Scriptures, and they searched them. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. John 5:39-40. 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. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 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. John 5:39New International Version. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Was my salvation real in the first place? John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Verse 1. 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. 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. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Search the Scriptures . He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. To achieve eternal life in the . behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. (ver. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. 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. infinite truth! He was God. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. 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 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. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. What love! Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Nay, "the world knew him not." (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. John 5:19-25 Father and Son. 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. "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. John 5:28-30 Resurrection. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. 4 5 One man was there who had been an . * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. It was sabbath-day. * 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." 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.