Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. Alas! (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 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. 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. Of course, the experience will still be intense. 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 dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. God is love. Fritzsche, p. 21). He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. a male mule, or more The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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 It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? (Verses John 1:44-51). d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His 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. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." WebLuke 4:16.As to the relation of the following incident to the similar one in Matthew 13:53 ff., Mark 6:1 ff., see on Matthew. 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. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr What you have just said is quite true. ? (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. 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. 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. 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. 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. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. For The Baltimore Sun. (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. 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. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Very simple words! What love! The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. God is love. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. (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. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. How can such have relationship with God? The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. He saw him under the fig tree. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 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. 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). As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. All is in the character of the Son of man. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). 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." (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. * 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." This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 1. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. What sayest thou of thyself? 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. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. (Ver. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman No charge could be remoter from the truth. 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. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more 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. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. The apostle attests this. This we have had fully before. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. 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. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 1. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 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. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. (ver. 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. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. 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. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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." 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. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. A. 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. 18 The fact In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. 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). not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. (Ver. - Now Jesus knew (perceived by his Divine penetration of human thought here quickened by their anxious look and hurried whisperings) that they were wishing to question him, and he said to them, Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little while, etc. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. Webnoun Slang. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. NET John 4:16 He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here." NLT John 4:16 "Go and get your husband," Jesus told her. ESV John 4:16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. infinite truth! NIV. He was God. Art thou that prophet? 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 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. 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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. 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. What you have just said is quite true.. 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