John 12:1-3
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. John 12:1 Jesus at supper:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. John 12:1 Jesus at supper:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS, SIX DAYS BEFORE THE PASSOVER, CAME TO BETHANY, WHERE LAZARUS WAS WHICH HAD BEEN DEAD, WHOM HE RAISED FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE THEY MADE HIM A SUPPER, AND MARTHA SERVED; BUT LAZARUS WAS ONE OF THEM THAT SAT AT THE TABLE WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TOOK MARY POUND OF OINTMENT OF SPIKENARD, VERY COSTLY, AND ANOINTED THE FEET OF JESUS, AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR; AND THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE ODOR OF THE OINTMENT. See Mark 14:3. The evangelist marks the introduction to the great Passion of the Lord. It was six days before the fest... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAITH ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES, JUDAS ISCARIOT, SIMON'S SON, WHICH SHOULD BETRAY HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
The objection of Judas:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY WAS NOT THIS OINTMENT SOLD FOR THREE HUNDRED PENCE, AND GIVEN TO THE POOR?... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS HE SAID, NOT THAT HE CARED FOR THE POOR, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A THIEF, AND HAD THE BAG, AND BARE WHAT WAS PUT THEREIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID JESUS, LET HER ALONE; AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE KEPT THIS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE POOR ALWAYS YE HAVE WITH YOU; BUT ME YE HAVE NOT ALWAYS. When Mary gave the wonderful evidence of her devotion to the Lord, all the disciples were more or less taken aback, Matthew 26:8. Their frugal manner of living immediately scented useless extravagance. But there was one in their midst,... [ Continue Reading ]
MUCH PEOPLE OF THE JEWS THEREFORE KNEW THAT HE WAS THERE; AND THEY CAME NOT FOR JESUS' SAKE ONLY, BUT THAT THEY MIGHT SEE LAZARUS ALSO, WHOM HE HAD RAISED FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
People come for the sake of Lazarus:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT PUT LAZARUS ALSO TO DEATH,... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THAT BY REASON OF HIM MANY OF THE JEWS WENT AWAY AND BELIEVED ON JESUS. In the course of the same evening, while Jesus was still in Bethany, many Jews came out from Jerusalem. The news of His coming had traveled ahead of Him, after the usual manner of such reports. But it was not only the in... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THE NEXT DAY MUCH PEOPLE THAT WERE COME TO THE FEAST, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT JESUS WAS COMING TO JERUSALEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOOK BRANCHES OF PALM-TREES, AND WENT FORTH TO MEET HIM, AND CRIED, HOSANNA! BLESSED IS THE KING OF ISRAEL THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, WHEN HE HAD FOUND A YOUNG ASS, SAT THEREON; AS IT IS WRITTEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF SION; BEHOLD, THY KING COMETH, SITTING ON AN ASS'S COLT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE THINGS UNDERSTOOD NOT HIS DISCIPLES AT THE FIRST; BUT WHEN JESUS WAS GLORIFIED, THEN REMEMBERED THEY THAT THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN OF HIM, AND THAT THEY HAD DONE THESE THINGS UNTO HIM. That Jesus had come as far as Bethany was now generally known in Jerusalem, and when He therefore set out fo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT WAS WITH HIM WHEN HE CALLED LAZARUS OUT OF HIS GRAVE, AND RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, BARE RECORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Further results of the raising of Lazarus:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE THE PEOPLE ALSO MET HIM FOR THAT THEY HEARD THAT HE HAD DONE THIS MIRACLE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PHARISEES THEREFORE SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, PERCEIVE YE HOW YE PREVAIL NOTHING? BEHOLD, THE WORLD IS GONE AFTER HIM. The ovation given to Jesus on the day of His entry into Jerusalem would probably never have reached such proportions, if it had not been for the fact that the witnesses of the rais... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE CERTAIN GREEKS AMONG THEM THAT CAME UP TO WORSHIP AT THE FEAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE HEATHEN. The Greeks apply to the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME CAME THEREFORE TO PHILIP, WHICH WAS OF BETHSAIDA OF GALILEE, AND DESIRED HIM, SAYING, SIR, WE WOULD SEE JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
PHILIP COMETH AND TELLETH ANDREW; AND AGAIN ANDREW AND PHILIP TELL JESUS. Certain Greeks there were among the crowds that came up to worship at the feast. They may have been men living in the Decapolis or in Galilee, men of pure Greek extraction, perhaps not even proselytes of the gate; they were he... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, THE HOUR IS COME THAT THE SON OF MAN SHOULD BE GLORIFIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hour of Christ's glorification:... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT A CORN OF WHEAT FALL INTO THE GROUND AND DIE, IT ABIDETH ALONE; BUT IF IT DIE, IT BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT LOVETH HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT; AND HE THAT HATETH HIS LIFE IN THIS WORLD SHALL KEEP IT UNTO LIFE ETERNAL.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN SERVE ME, LET HIM FOLLOW ME; AND WHERE I AM, THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE. IF ANY MAN SERVE ME, HIM WILL MY FATHER HONOR. Jesus was deeply moved by the request of the Greeks to become acquainted with Him, to know the Savior. It showed Him that the hour, the time, had come when He was to... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED; AND WHAT SHALL I SAY? FATHER, SAVE ME FROM THIS HOUR; BUT FOR THIS CAUSE CAME I UNTO THIS HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]
The manner of Christ's glorification:... [ Continue Reading ]
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME. THEN CAME THERE A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, I HAVE BOTH GLORIFIED IT, AND WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY AND HEARD IT SAID THAT IT THUNDERED; OTHERS SAID, AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, THIS VOICE CAME NOT BECAUSE OF ME, BUT FOR YOUR SAKES.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD; NOW SHALL THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD BE CAST OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS HE SAID, SIGNIFYING WHAT DEATH HE SHOULD DIE. The thought of the coming ordeal, in a way, filled the soul of Christ with dread, He was deeply moved and agitated at the prospect. He felt something of the dread and fear of death. For Jesus was true man, whose flesh and blood shrank from the idea... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
WALKING IN THE LIGHT. John 12:34 The necessity of believing in the Light:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU. WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT, LEST DARKNESS COME UPON YOU; FOR HE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE YE HAVE LIGHT, BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT, THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. THESE THINGS SPAKE JESUS, AND DEPARTED, AND DID HIDE HIMSELF FROM THEM. For once the people understood at least a part of the message which Jesus tried to convey to them; they comprehended that He was referring to His d... [ Continue Reading ]
The fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOUGH HE HAD DONE SO MANY MIRACLES BEFORE THEM, YET THEY BELIEVED NOT ON HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET MIGHT BE FULFILLED, WHICH HE SPAKE, LORD, WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT, AND TO WHOM HATH THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE, BECAUSE THAT ESAIAS SAID AGAIN,... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HARDENED THEIR HEART, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, NOR UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY AND SPAKE OF HIM. The results of Christ's entire ministry, on the whole, had been very discouraging. Neither His words nor His miracles had had the desired result. And in this, as the evangelist here points out, the judgment of God upon unbelief was car... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
OF FAITH IN CHRIST AND GOD. John 12:42... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY LOVED THE PRAISE OF MEN MORE THAN THE PRAISE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS CRIED AND SAID, HE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME BELIEVETH NOT ON ME, BUT ON HIM THAT SENT ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT SEETH ME SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON ME SHOULD NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORDS AND BELIEVE NOT, I JUDGE HIM NOT; FOR I CAME NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM; THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME, HE GAVE ME A COMMANDMENT WHAT I SHOULD SAY AND WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I KNOW THAT HIS COMMANDMENT IS LIFE EVERLASTING; WHATSOEVER I SPEAK, THEREFORE, EVEN AS THE FATHER SAID UNTO ME, SO I SPEAK. In the form of a parenthesis the evangelist records a fact concerning some of the rulers of the Jews, members of the great council, the Sanhedrin. A few of these had gaine... [ Continue Reading ]