* 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. . In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. 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." Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. And he answered, No. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. , 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 (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. (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. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. Alas! God is love. Art thou Elias? 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. 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. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. Webnoun Slang. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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. Deeper questions demanded solution. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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). (Verse John 3:10). he would not. 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. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Observe: not which was, but "which is." Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. No man hath seen God at any time. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. 42). 17 This is how love is made complete How striking the omission! "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. (Ver. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. John 4:19-20. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. He acts as such. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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? In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in 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! 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. God is love. (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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! 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. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. We love him, because he first loved us. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. 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. And he saith, I am not. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. 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. 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. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. How can such have relationship with God? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 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. 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. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. He tells Philip to follow Him. (ver. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. This He does in verses 16-19. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. New Living Translation. 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. 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. Of course, the experience will still be intense. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. It was sabbath-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. 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. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. How was this? (Verses John 5:17-18). Also called john mule . God is love. 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. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 42 And he brought him to Jesus. 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. 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 was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:16-19 Commentary on John 4:4-26 (Read John 4:4-26) There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Nor was it yet complete. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Copy Print Similar Verses Save Share This Verse: Translation Details for John 4:16 Then (ver. 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. 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). Nor could any question be more momentous. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 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. 2 He was with God in the beginning. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. Art thou that prophet? 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. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. 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. He was God. But let them beware how they perverted it. And they asked him, What then? God loves us as a father loves his own son. John 3:1-36 follows this up. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. 18 There is no fear in love. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. (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. The Father seeks worshippers. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 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 author is the apostle John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (13:23 [see note there]; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20,24). (Ver. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! There was purpose in it. This is grace and truth. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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. "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." No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. infinite truth! It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. What a witness all this to His person! 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