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John 10:32
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me?
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me?
Verse 32. _MANY GOOD WORKS HAVE I SHOWED YOU_] I have healed your sick, delivered those of you who were possessed from the power of demons; I have fed multitudes of your poor, and I have taught you in...
MANY GOOD WORKS - Many miracles of benevolence healing the sick, etc. His miracles were good works, as they tended to promote the happiness of men, and were proofs of his benevolence. He had performed...
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...
MANY GOOD WORKS... FOR WHICH OF THOSE WORKS DO YOU STONE ME? In chapter 8:46 he had asked: Which of you convinceth me of sin? Now he calls for the specifications of the crime for which they have sent...
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...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
FROM. Greek. _ek._ App-104....
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...
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...
_Many good works_ It is the same word as is used John 10:14 of the _Good_Shepherd: many beautiful, noble, excellent works. Comp. -He hath done all things _well_" (Mark 7:37) and -God saw that it was _...
ἈΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ. Just as the Jews ‘answered’ His act of cleansing the Temple (John 2:18), Jesus ‘answered’ their act of preparing to stone: comp. John 5:17. The act in each case involved an assertion. ἜΡΓΑ Κ...
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...
ΈΔΕΙΞΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G1166) показывать, ΠΟΊΟΣ (G4169) какого рода, ΛΙΘΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΙΘΆΖΩ, _см._ John 10:31. _Praes._ выражает либо тенденцию: "вы хотите побить Меня к...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES— As a full proof in what sense our Lord's hearers understood him, we find that they took up stones, and were going to kill him, in obedience, as they supposed, to the law,...
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...
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MANY GOOD WORKS, [ kala (G2570) erga (G2041)] - that is, works o...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
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...
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...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM — _i.e.,_ answered the thought which He read in their hearts, and the intention which was expressed by their act. MANY GOOD WORKS HAVE I SHEWED YOU FROM MY FATHER. — For the idea o...
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_....
Jesus anticipating them says: Πολλὰ … με; “Many excellent works [‘praeclara opera,' Meyer] have I shown you from my Father; for what work among these do ye stone me?” Which of them deserves stoning? ...
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...
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my (k) Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? (k) Through my Father's authority and power....
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...
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 ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 22-32. 1. The argument presented by Godet, as against Meyer, Weiss and others, seems satisfactory as showing that Jesus probably left Jerusalem and its ne...
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...
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 ...
“ _Jesus answered them: I have shown you many good works by the power of my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?_ 33. _The Jews answered him it is not for a good work that we stone thee,...
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...
32._Many good works I have shown you. _Here Christ not only says that they have no reason for their cruelty, but accuses them of ingratitude, in making so unjust a requital for God’s favors. Nor does...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MANY GOOD WORKS,.... Such as healing the sick, and all manner of diseases; dispossessing devils, cleansing lepers, giving sight to the blind, causing the dumb to speak, the deaf t...
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? Ver. 32. _From my Father_] _i.e._ _Eius authoritate fretus._ (Beza.) All our works must...
_Jesus answered, Many good works have I showed you from my Father_ That is, in confirmation of my mission from my Father I have wrought many miracles, all of a beneficent kind, and most becoming the p...
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...
The word translated GOOD is of a very large signification; signifying excellent, useful, profitable, beauteous, &c., whatsoever in common speech cometh under the notion of good. I (saith our Saviour)...
Tertullian Against Praxeas He therefore adds to this very statement, that He "had showed them many works from the Father," for none of which did He deserve to be stoned.[302]...
John 10:32 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 Many G4183 good G2570 works G2041 shown G1166 ...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
‘Jesus answered them, saying, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” ' Jesus answered their anger. His words were subtle and to the point. He drew att...
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...
John 10:32. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MANY GOOD WORKS HAVE I SHOWED YOU FROM THE FATHER; FOR WHICH OF THESE WORKS DO YE STONE ME? On the word ‘good' see the note on John 10:11: every work He has shown them...
FROM THE FATHER (εκ του πατρος). Proceeding out of the Father as in John 6:65; John 16:28 (cf. John 7:17; John 8:42;...
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...
_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...
_Then the Jews took up stones again_ RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE persecutes a man on account of I. HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. The Jews took up stones merely because Christ had proclaimed a doctrine which wa...
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
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...
1 John 3:12; 1 Samuel 19:4; 2 Chronicles 24:20; Acts 10:38; Acts 2:2
Good works [κ α λ α]. Beautiful, noble works, adapted to call forth admiration and respect. Compare Mark 14:6, and see on ver. 11. For which of these works [δ ι α π ο ι ο ν α υ τ ω ν ε ρ γ ο ν]. Liter...