In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, (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. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. But let them beware how they perverted it. 2. As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. He acts as such. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. Nor was it yet complete. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and 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. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 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. 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. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. What love! 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. How withering the words! (Verses John 7:40-53). 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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." It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. When Jesus therefore perceived Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . (Ver. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. All rights reserved. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, And in this He is sovereign. Deeper questions demanded solution. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. (Ver. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. 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. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the (Verses John 5:17-18). The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." The Father and the Son were at work. 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. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 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. 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. 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. John 6:16. John 6:15. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 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. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. (John 12:48). 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. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. King James Version (KJV) Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. 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 . The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. What a witness all this to His person! mountain alone". They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . And such was Jesus. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. (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. John was not yet cast into prison. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. 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. 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. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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 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. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. 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. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 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. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. (Verse John 3:10). What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. (Ver. This He does in verses 16-19. (Ver. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. (ver. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. (Ver. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. through "sin." Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. Alas! There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 64). Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. "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." 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Of this we learn nothing, here. Read full chapter. 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. 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. . 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