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. It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). Join Profs. The president of the United Church of Christ writes to say he doesn't recognize the Christianity espoused by, and used as a defense for, the actions of Florida Gov. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? through "sin." Verse 2. the 'bad people' and Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. (Verses John 7:40-53). Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. 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. Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Old Testament (I. Christ as Fulfilment of). They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. 3. Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Shakespeare's explanation was good John Kennedy, but my favourite is still the 5 year old's explanation of the dangers of email, e.g. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." 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. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. (Ver. infinite truth! The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. No charge could be remoter from the truth. Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead.
8. Exegetical Commentary on John 5 | Bible.org We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God.
john 8:39 nasb - Bible Commentaries - page 5 of 6 This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. 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. Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. This we have had fully before. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. And in this He is sovereign. 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. (Ver. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. It is this which our Lord so emphatically marks in the case of the Jews. 42).
THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40 - Wisdomfromabove.net 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. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John 5:39 NIV - You study the Scriptures diligently - Bible Gateway See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? They had the Scriptures, and they searched them. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. John 4. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. for he knew He was the Christ. How can such have relationship with God? Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, Read full chapter.
John 5:39 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org john 8 32) John 5:39 (King James Version) 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. 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. How withering the words! Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. John 5:39-40. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. 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.
John 5:39 - KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE John 5:39,40 - Sermon Bible Commentary For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. (ver. There is a crying need today for people to seek out the wisdom of God as revealed in His Scriptures and make application of it in their lives. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 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." Amen. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. 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. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. (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. Why should He not show Himself to the world? "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. b. 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. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. There were many witnesses to Christ's claim to deity and His role as Redeemer. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? John 8:31-James : . Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. This He does in verses 16-19. 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. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh.
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