Commentary Critical and Explanatory
John 12:39
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again (Isaiah 6:9).
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again (Isaiah 6:9).
Verse 39. _THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE_] Why? Because they did not believe the report of the prophets concerning Christ; therefore they credited not the miracles which he wrought as a proof that...
THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE - See Mark 6:5; “He could there do no mighty works,” etc. The works can and could are often used in the Bible to denote the existence of such obstacles as to make a result certa...
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
FAILURE IN JUDÆ A. The many signs have failed to convince. The author explains this by the prediction in Isaiah 53:1, the arm of the Lord being interpreted of Messiah. And the ultimate cause is also d...
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, BECAUSE THAT ESAIAS SAID. Isaiah 6:10. The Revision is clearer, which reads: "For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah has said again." The cause of the...
When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them. Although he had done such great signs in their presence they did not believe in him. It happened thus that the word which Isai...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
THEREFORE. On account of (Greek. _dia._ App-104.) this: i.e. the unbelief of John 12:37. COULD NOT. were not able to. BELIEVE. App-160. Judicial blindness follows persistent unbelief....
The Judgment of the Evangelist S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
_Therefore_ Or, FOR THIS CAUSE (John 12:18_; John 12:27_); see on John 7:21-22. It refers to what precedes, and the -because" which follows gives the reason more explicitly. This use is common in S. J...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. FOR THIS CAUSE: as usual (John 12:18; John 12:27; John 5:18; John 7:21-22;...
THE JUDGMENT OF THE EVANGELIST S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
Ver 37. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38. That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our repo...
_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
ΉΔΎΝΑΝΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, ΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ, _см._ John 12:36. _Inf._ в роли дополнения основного гл....
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE,— That is, by the just judgment of God for their obstinate and wilful resistance to the truth, they were so hardened, that the doctrine and miracles of our Lord could...
A PERPETUAL PROPHECY _Text 12:37-43_ 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 12:37-50 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 12:— "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them" (John 12:36)...
37 What better proof could be found that they were walking in darkness than their rejection of the Man of Sorrows? The prophets plainly foretold their action and yet they are too much in the dark to s...
12:39 again, (d-11) See Isaiah 6:9-10 ....
CAUSE OF THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS. At first they could believe, but refused. By and by they became incapable of it. In this too common experience St. John sees the judgment of God: cp. Romans 9-11....
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, BECAUSE. — The words refer to those which have gone before, not to those which follow, and then by an addition give the reason more fully. “It was on account of the d...
V. _ RESULTS OF CHRIST'S MANIFESTATION._ "But though He had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on Him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,...
Διὰ τοῦτο seems to have a double reference, first to what precedes, second to the ὅτι following, _cf._ John 8:47. οὐκ ἠδύναντο, “they were not able,” irrespective of will; their inability arose from t...
In the verses which follow, John 12:37-43, _John accounts for the unbelief of the Jews_. This fact that the very people who had been appointed to accept the Messiah had rejected Jesus needed explanati...
BELIEF MAY BECOME IMPOSSIBLE John 12:30-41 The question of the Greeks led our Lord's thoughts to His death. He saw, too, the baptism of suffering through which His followers must pass. From all this...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
They could not believe, [3] that is, they would not, says St. Augustine, or it could not be, considering their wilful obstinate blindness. (Witham) --- But where then is the sin, if they could not bel...
JUDICIAL BLINDNESS OF THE JEWS John 12:37-41. _“He, having performed so many miracles in their presence, they did not believe on Him, in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet may be fulfilled, whi...
I. THE CAUSES OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 12:37-43. If the Jews are the chosen people, prepared of God to the end of receiving the Messiah and of carrying salvation to other nations, ought they not to ha...
THIRD SECTION: 12:37-50. RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT THE MYSTERIOUS FACT OF JEWISH UNBELIEF. This passage forms the close of the second part of the Gospel (John 12:1-36). The evangelist interrupts his nar...
“ _And indeed they could not believe, because Isaiah said again_, 40 _He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and...
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a...
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...
39._Therefore they could not believe. _This is somewhat more harsh; because, if the words be taken in their natural meaning, the way was shut up against the Jews, and the power of believing was taken...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE,.... God had determined to leave them to the blindness and hardness of their hearts, and to deny them his grace, which only could cure them of it, and enable them to b...
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, Ver. 39. _Therefore they could not believe, &c._] They could not, because they would not, saith Theophylact out of Chrysostom, who ye...
_Though he had done so many miracles before them_ So that they could not but see them; _yet they believed not on him_ That is, in general they did not; being hardened in their infidelity. _That the sa...
THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE; it is said of Joseph's brethren, that they could not speak peaceably to him, Genesis 37:4; and Christ said to the Jews, "How can ye believe, who receive honor one of another, a...
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, BECAUSE THAT ESAIAS SAID AGAIN,...
The fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy:...
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
37-43 Observe the method of conversion implied here. Sinners are brought to see the reality of Divine things, and to have some knowledge of them. To be converted, and truly turned from sin to Christ,...
OLBGrk; Some will have, THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, to be the same with, they did not; as, MARK 6:5, it is said Christ could not do mighty works at Nazareth; or the same with, they would not, as GENESIS 1...
John 12:39 Therefore G5124 G1223 could G1410 (G5711) not G3756 believe G4100 (G5721) because G3754 Isaiah...
‘Therefore they could not believe, for Isaiah again said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to he...
John 12:39-40 . FOR THIS CAUSE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, BECAUSE ISAIAH SAID AGAIN, HE HATH BLINDED THEIR EYES, AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH TH...
The public ministry of Jesus has been brought to a close, and the moment has been marked by words the melancholy pathos of which can hardly be mistaken, ‘Having gone away, He was hidden from then' (Jo...
FOR THIS CAUSE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE (δια τουτο ουκ εδυναντο πιστευειν). Τουτο (this) seems to have a double reference (to what precedes and to what follows) as in John 8:47. The negative imperfect...
John 12:37. _But though he had done so many miracles before then, yet they believed not on him._ They had an opportunity of seeing with their eyes; what the Christ could do. He had even raised the de...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead; and this miracle made a great sensation among the people. They came to meet Jesus, waving palm branches before him, and all Jerusalem was on a stir. John 12:19....
Our Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead, and this miracle had excited great attention in Jerusalem. In consequence of this, the people had led him in triumph through the streets, and everywhere ther...
John 12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would...
Our Lord had gained a sudden popularity through raising Lazarus from the dead, and the people had attended him with great enthusiasm as he rode through the streets of Jerusalem. For the time, things l...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
_But though He had done so many miracles … yet they believed not on Him_ OUR LORD’S MINISTRY I. ITS DETAILS. 1. The doctrines He taught (John 12:44). These words are an abridged statement of our Lor...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:37 John cites Isaiah 53:1 and Isaiah 6:10 to indicate that Scripture predicted the Jewish rejection o
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
_Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again_, &c. The words "therefore" and "because" signify not the cause of their unbelief, as Calvin supposes, but marking the necessary conse...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:37. The Evangelist’s statement of the causes of Jewish unbelief, and of the timidity of many who believed, which prevented them confessing Christ. John 12:37...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
2 Peter 2:14; Isaiah 44:18; Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 6:9; John 10:38;...
Therefore now they could not believe — That is, by the just judgment of God, for their obstinacy and wilful resistance of the truth, they were at length so left to the hardness of their hearts, that n...