Commentary Critical and Explanatory
John 10:37
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
Verse 37. _IF I DO NOT THE WORKS_, c.] I desire you to believe only on the evidence of my works: if I do not do such works as God only can perform, then believe me not....
JESUS ANSWERED THEM - The answer of Jesus consists of two parts. The first John 10:34 shows that they ought not to object to his use of the word God, even if he were no more than a man. The second Joh...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
IF. DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER, BELIEVE ME NOT. The passage just quoted from their law showed that those who did the work assigned to them by God were recognized, as in some sense, partakers of the...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
The Jews again lifted up stones to stone him. Jesus said to them: "I have showed you many lovely deeds, which came from my Father. For which of these deeds are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answer...
BELIEVE. App-160....
Having met their technical charge in a technical manner He now proceeds to justify the assertion of His unity with the Father by an appeal to His works....
_believe me not_ A literal command. If His works are not those which His Father works, they _ought_not (not merely have no _need_) to believe what He says. Comp. John 5:24; John 5:46; John 6:30;...
Christ answers the formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side....
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
37, 38. Having met their technical charge in a technical manner He now justifies the assertion of His unity with the Father by an appeal to His works. _Deum non vides, tamen Deum agnoscis ex operibus...
ΕἸ ΟΥ̓ ΠΟΙΩ͂. Not εἰ μή, because the negative belongs to ποιῶ, not to the sentence; i_f I omit to do_: John 3:12; John 5:47; Revelation 20:15. Comp. Soph. _Ajax_, 1131. Winer, pp. 599, 600. ΜῊ ΠΙΣΤ. Μ...
34–38. Christ answers a formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side....
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
Ver 31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him, 32. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?" 33. The Jews answered hi...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΠΟΝΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать. Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, в котором уеловие является истинным....
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER. — He has met the charge of blasphemy on technical grounds. In this and the following verse He advances from that defence to the ultimate test. Whether He is a blasp...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
εἰ οὐ ποιῶ … πιστεύσατε. “If I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me: but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works.” That is, if you do not credit my statements, a...
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
THE ASSAULT John 10:30-39. “ _I and My Father are one_.” There is but one God, but three persons _i.e._, three characters manifested by the Deity to the world. I am a preacher, a teacher, and a book e...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
III. SECOND ADDRESS: JOHN 10:32-39. The reply of Jesus treats of two subjects: 1. That of the _blasphemy_ which is imputed to Him (John 10:32-36); 2. That of His _relation_ to God which is contested ...
“ _If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;_ 38 _but if I do them, though you believe not me, believe my works, to the end that you may know and may understand that my Father is in me and I...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_THE EVIDENCE OF THE MIRACLES_ ‘If I do not the works of My Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me,...
37._If I do not the works _Lest the Jews might reply that it was in vain for him to boast of_sanctification_, and of all that depended on it, he again draws their attention to his miracles, in which t...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER,.... Not only what the Father had given him to finish, and which he wrought by him as man, but such as were as great as the Father had done, and were equal to them;...
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. Ver. 37. _If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not_] Thus said Christ, but so saith not Christ's vicar, as the pope will needlessly be ca...
_If I do not the works of my Father_, &c. When I claim the character of _the Son of God_, I do not expect to be credited merely on my own affirmation: if I do not such glorious works as could not be p...
THE WORKS OF MY FATHER; divine works-the works of God. BELIEVE ME NOT; admit not my claim to be the Son of God. Jesus Christ, by the performance of divine works, proved himself to be divine, the Messi...
The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:...
IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER, BELIEVE ME NOT....
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanc...
Our Saviour doth often appeal to his works to testify concerning his Divine mission and power; these works he here calleth the WORKS OF his FATHER; by which he doth not only mean works that are pleasi...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews glory ye shall see,"-that is, Christ, doing deeds of power in the glory of God the Father;[260]...
John 10:37 If G1487 do G4160 not G3756 do G4160 (G5719) works G2041 My G3450 Father G3962 not...
‘If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do do them, then believe the works even though you do not believe me, so that you may know and go on knowing that the Father...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:37. IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER, BELIEVE ME NOT. In the last verse ‘the Father' was the Name of which Jesus spoke, thus bringing together in thought God who spoke in the psalm and His F...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
IF I DO NOT (ε ου ποιω). Condition of first class, assumed as true, with negative ου, not ε μη=unless.BELIEVE ME NOT (μη πιστευετε μο). Prohibition with μη and the present active imperative. Eith...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
BUT IF I DO THEM. "Actions speak louder than words....
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:37 For Jesus’ WORKS as a witness to his deity, see chart. ⇐...
VER. 32. _Jesus answered_, &c. He replied not to the words, for none had been spoken, but to the crafty intention of the Jews. He answered, _i.e._, He asked them for what cause do ye wish to stone Me?...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
John 10:25; John 10:32; John 12:37; John 14:10; John 15:24;...
Believe me [π ι σ τ ε υ ε τ ε μ ο ι]. Notice believe, with the simple dative; believe me, not on me. It is a question of faith in His testimony, not in His person. See on 1 12....
Here we have. second argument, by which our Saviour proves, that it was no blasphemy to call himself God; but that he was God in very deed; namely, an argument taken from his works: IF. DO NOT THE WOR...