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. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. This call to careful exegesis is well stated. John 6:1-10 sets up the story for us. The wine at Cana (2:1-11). 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. I dont want to get rid of him, I dont want him out of my life. 14, 15. that prophet(See on [1789]Joh 1:21). .] The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. November 13, 2022. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. (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? 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. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. I am the loser when I do not take Him up on His offer. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. 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. Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week's Study: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, John 14:1-3, John 6:26-51, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:51-55. Be blessed and keep up the good writings. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!" ( John 6:14-15) And they're right. As Jews, they had already known and seen the power of God. Protection delivered by the same tools Microsoft uses for business customers. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. "He must, increase, but I decrease." 19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. (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. 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. (28-65) Many of disciples go back. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. In John 14:6, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. In the midst of this ministry, Jesus takes his disciples apart for a break. This was something that happened occasionally in those times. (Ver. He had told the disciples to go on ahead of Him to Capernaum, then went up on the mountain by Himself. John 6:14-15 New International Version 14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. 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. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. 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. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Jesus didnt want to be king in the way the Israelites wanted him to, but that didnt stop theIsraelites. To avoid the fury of Herod who had just slain the Baptist. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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." This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. 14After the people saw the sign(A) Jesus performed, they began to say, Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.(B) 15Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king(C) by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.(D). The Jews were expecting a Prophet who would show forth the finger marks of God. 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. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. Nay, "the world knew him not." "But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep [in death]" ( 1 Corinthians 15:20. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. 4. Fritzsche, p. 21). 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. While it is both true that He was the Prophet to come and that He would also lead His people out of bondage it was not quite the way they had planned. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. And the people realize he performed a miracle to produce food to feed them. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. John 6:14 Prophet Like Moses John 6:15-19 Jesus King John 6:20-21 Fear Not John 6:22-25 Jesus Boats John 6:26-30 Work of God God never called us to mock us or punish us, He called us to make us. 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. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. John 14:15-24 New International Version Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit 15 "If you love me, keep my commands. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. John 6:1-15 The Word of God After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 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. Read full chapter John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. "When therefore the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, 'This is of a truth the Prophet who is to come into the world.'" (John 6:14; cf. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. 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. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. (Verses John 7:40-53). Simply put, as believers - we live to die, we die to live just as our Savior did. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 14 Now when [] the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say, [] "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!" 15 Then Jesus, because he [] knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him [] king, withdrew again up the mountain by himself alone.. LEB. 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. 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." Glory would be displayed in its day. Alas! Then (ver. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. No man hath seen God at any time. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. 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. 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. For He who spoke was divine. NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print: Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Galatians, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. There He supposes His full rejection and death. How easy it would have been to have gone the path of popularity. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. You must listen to him. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." He remembers that the effect of the miracle on the minds of those men, was that they were convinced that this was the Prophet whom they expected, and for whom they had before taken John the Baptist (John 1:21). And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Jesus had fed the people. to Jerusalem, as the seat of the theocracy, whither they were journeying to the feast. And he saith, I am not. So this miraculous provision of bread and fish brings to their minds the miraculous bread Moses called down from heaven, the manna. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." (John 6:5-6 RSV) Examination time has come. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. And theyre right. Le Nouvel Esprit's video commentary on St. Pope John Paul II's theology of the body, audience 11, from December 12, 1979. It was sabbath-day. ] come and carry Him away by force (Acts 8:39; 2 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:17), i.e. John Locke FRS ( / lk /; 29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism ". 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. Man is morally judged. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. When Jesus therefore perceived 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; International Bible Lesson. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. The word heart. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world." Having seen this miraculous sign (smeion), the people recalled Moses' prediction that a Prophet like him would arise ( Deut. Christ's disciples, more than others, should keep their minds quiet, when everything else is unquiet. (Ver. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. After seeing the Jews and the disciples struggling with the radical nature of his words, our Lord says to the disciples and to us all: "It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." The people were seriously seeking to make Him King.
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