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. This we have had fully before. (Ver. (Verses John 4:31-38). The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. This would make all manifest. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. 2. 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 he saith, I am not. In John 6:15 we read that "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone." I have often considered this verse to be the death-knell of premillennialism. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to 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? C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. 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. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Nor was it yet complete. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. 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, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, En une ardeur de zele inconsidere et temeraire. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Read full chapter. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: John 6:15 Context. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. What a witness all this to His person! Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. (Verses John 7:40-53). And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . 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. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 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. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. He acts as such. 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. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: "He must, increase, but I decrease." He was God. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 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. 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 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). Clarke's Commentary. 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. 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! For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Verse John 6:15. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. 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. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. How truly it is man under law! 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. "The law was given by Moses." conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). Here the Lord introduces the cross. And in this He is sovereign. Jesus Walks on the Sea. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. 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. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. Read full chapter. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. What sayest thou of thyself? However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). Scripture is, or may be, before man always. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 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. 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. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. He saw him under the fig tree. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. Verse 15. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. seize him in order that they might make him King. 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. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. When Jesus therefore perceived 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. (John 12:48). John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. A temporal prince: John 6:15 Context who were diseased unless otherwise indicated of Christ is His person contrast. 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