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Verse 42. _AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS - MANY BELIEVED ON HIM_] We only
know the names of two of them, _Nicodemus_, and _Joseph_ of
_Arimathea_.
_BUT-THEY DID NOT CONFESS HIM_] Or _it_: they were as yet...
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THE CHIEF RULERS - Members of the Sanhedrin - Nicodemus, Joseph, and
others like them.
BECAUSE OF THE PHARISEES - The Pharisees were a majority of the
council.
DID NOT CONFESS HIM - Did not openly av...
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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. ...
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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...
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NEVERTHELESS AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS MANY BELIEVED ON HIM.
These were members of the Sanhedrim. They had an intellectual faith,
but it was not. power over their hearts. "With the heart man believes
unt...
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LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
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Nevertheless many of the rulers believed in him, but they did not
publicly confess their faith for they did not wish to be
excommunicated; for they loved the glory of men rather than the glory
of God....
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BE PUT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE. become excom municate _(aposunagogoi)._
See note on John 9:22, and Compare John 16:1....
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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...
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_Nevertheless_ In spite of the judicial blindness with which God had
visited them many EVEN OF the Sanhedrin believed. We know of Joseph of
Arimathea and Nicodemus.
_because of the Pharisees_ The rec...
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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...
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ὍΜΩΣ ΜΈΝΤΟΙ. Here only in N.T. For μέντοι see on John
4:27. In spite of the judicial blindness with which God had visited
them _many_ even of _the Sanhedrin believed on Him_. We know of Joseph
of Arim...
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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...
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_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...
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ΌΜΩΣ ΜΈΝΤΟΙ (G3676; G3305 несмотря ни на что,
впрочем (RWP).
ΏΜΟΛΌΓΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670)
признавать. _Impf._ указывает на
постоянное уклонение от дел веры
(Westcott).
ΆΠΟΣΥΝΆΓΟΙΓ...
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DISCOURSE: 1676
THE DANGER OF LOVING THE PRAISE OF MEN
John 12:42. _Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on
him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they
sho...
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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,...
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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)...
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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...
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12:42 on (b-10) _ Eis_ . see ver. 11....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him. —
This is strongly asserted in opposition to the spiritual blindness of
the nation. There were, notwithstanding, many even in the Sanhedr...
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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,...
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Although unbelief was so commonly the result of Christ's
manifestation, ὅμως μέντοι, _cf._ Herodot., i. 189,
“nevertheless, however, even of the rulers many believed on Him, but
on account of the Phar...
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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...
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THE COMMANDMENT OF THE FATHER
John 12:42-50
The fear of being cast out of the synagogue was a very real one, John
9:22; and the yoke laid on Israel by the Pharisees was a very crushing
one. Only a ve...
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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...
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(10) Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they
should be put out of the synagogue:
(10) The ones who believe ar...
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COWARDICE OF THE RULERS
John 12:42-43. _“Moreover, indeed, many of the rulers believed on
Him; but did not confess Him on account of the Pharisees, in order
that they might not be put out of the synag...
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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...
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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...
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“ _It is true, nevertheless, that, even among the rulers, many
believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess
their faith, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;_ 43 _for
th...
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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...
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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...
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Nevertheless, many even of the rulers believed on Him. The murmuring
and fierceness of the Jews, in rejecting Christ, having risen to such
a height of insolence, it might have been thought that all th...
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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...
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NEVERTHELESS AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS ALSO,.... These were the members
of the Jewish sanhedrim, as Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, and
others:
MANY BELIEVED ON HIM; that he was the Messiah, though they...
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Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but
because of the Pharisees they did not confess _him_, lest they should
be put out of the synagogue:
Ver. 42. _Lest they should be put...
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_Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him_
Though the greater part of those to whom Christ preached rejected him,
his sermons were not wholly unsuccessful; for a number of the ch...
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MANY BELIEVED ON HIM; were convinced that he was the Messiah.
DID NOT CONFESS HIM; did not openly declare their belief. The
regarding of the praise of men more than the praise of God, while it
may con...
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OF FAITH IN CHRIST AND GOD. John 12:42...
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NEVERTHELESS, AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS ALSO MANY BELIEVED ON HIM, BUT
BECAUSE OF THE PHARISEES THEY DID NOT CONFESS HIM, LEST THEY SHOULD BE
PUT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE;...
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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...
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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,...
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OLBGrk;
Though the Pharisees made up a great part of the sanhedrim, yet there
were divers others also mixed with them, amongst which there were many
of a better temper; and it may be arcontwn here may...
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John 12:42 Nevertheless G3676 G3305 even G2532 among G1537 rulers G758
many G4183 believed G4100 (G5656) in...
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‘Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in (eis) him,
but because they were afraid of the Pharisees they did not confess it
in case they were put out of the synagogue, for they loved the...
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John 12:42. NEVERTHELESS, EVEN FROM AMONG THE RULERS MANY BELIEVED IN
HIM. The language which John has used is general: as a nation Israel
has rejected Jesus. But His mission has not been without effe...
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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...
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NEVERTHELESS EVEN
(ομως μεντο κα). For the old ομως see 1 Corinthians
14:7; Galatians 3:15 (only other examples in N.T.), here only with
μεντο, "but yet," and κα, "even." In spite of what has just
b...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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MANY JEWISH AUTHORITIES BELIEVED IN JESUS. We know two of the Council
who did: Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. DID NOT TALK ABOUT IT
OPENLY. Those who did would be expelled (John 9:22)...
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_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...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:42 SYNAGOGUE. Synagogues usually had large
rooms with bench seating along the wall. See note on Luke 4:16....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 4:15; 1 John 4:2; 1 Peter 4:12; Acts 5:41; Isaiah 51:7;...
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Among the chief rulers [κ α ι ε κ τ ω ν α ρ χ ο ν τ ω
ν]. Rev., more neatly and accurately, even of the rulers.
Believed on Him [ε π ι σ τ ε υ σ α ν ε ι ς α υ τ ο
ν]. See on 1 12. It is to be noted t...
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Observe, 1. That though the generality of the Jews were thus hardened
under Christ's ministry and miracles, yet there were some, and those
of the chief rank, even rulers, that did believe on him; that...