For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! If He judges, it is not without full warning. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 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. 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. Alas! 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). Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. (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. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. 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, 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. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? 1 John 4:19. Expand. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 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. 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. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 18 The fact Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. 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. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. And they asked him, What then? (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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. How striking the omission! It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 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. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. (Verses John 1:44-51). 1. Very simple words! 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. That means that under Biden's budget plan the federal debt would increase by $16.411 trillion or 57.8% in the 11 fiscal years from when he first took office in fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2032. 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. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. ", 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, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Tout ainsi que la terre, pour apporter fruict, sera menuisee et amollie par le soc de la charrue. 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. How withering the words! 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. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 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. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. He was God. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. This is grace and truth. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. 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. 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. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 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). There was purpose in it. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. 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. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. Then (ver. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." . To have righteousness we But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His 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. , , . His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. John 3:1-36 follows this up. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Man is morally judged. 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. 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. 2. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Web1. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Author. 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. 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. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. (Ver. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. A. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. 18 There is no * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 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. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. What a witness all this to His person! Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. God loves us as a father loves his own son. 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