WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. And the chapter is closed with observing the contradiction there is between a profession of love to God, and hatred of the brethren, seeing God, who is invisible, cannot be loved, if brethren that are seen are hated; and also the commandment, that he that loves God should love his brother also, 1Jo 4:20,21. 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). This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. 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. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 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. Christ's road from Judea to 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. Web1. 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. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. 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. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. The Father seeks worshippers. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of (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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. 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. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. God is love. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than The result immediately follows. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. 2. 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." 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. (Ver. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. 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. (ver. All rights reserved. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. 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." In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. WebJesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. So only is man born of God. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. How withering the words! 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. 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. We love him, because he first loved us. a male mule, or more 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. John 4:16. Jesus declared of God the Father, God is Spirit, (John 4:24) meaning that God the Father has no tangible body which may be seen.