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John 12:29
The people therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered; others said, An angel spake to Him.
The people therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered; others said, An angel spake to Him.
Verse 29. _THE PEOPLE - SAID THAT IT THUNDERED: OTHERS - AN ANGEL_ _SPAKE TO HIM._] Bishop _Pearce_ says, Probably there was thunder as well as a voice, as in Exodus 19:16-2, and some persons, who wer...
THE PEOPLE - A part of the people. IT THUNDERED - The unexpected sound of the voice would confound and amaze them; and though there is no reason to doubt that the words were spoken distinctly Matthew...
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. ...
THE REQUEST OF THE GREEKS. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain His a...
AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM. All heard the sound of the divine voice, but it was not clear to all what it was. Like those who were with Saul of Tarsus when on the way to Damascus, they heard, but did not c...
"Now, my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, rescue me from this hour.' But it was for this reason that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." A voice came from heaven: "I have...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
THUNDERED, &c. They heard. sound, but could not distinguish what it was. Compare Acts 9:4; Acts 22:9....
The Judgment of Men Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the hierarchy, Christ's triumph and the Pharisees" discomfiture,...
_The people … thundered … spake_ Better, _The_ MULTITUDE … HAD _thundered …_ HATH SPOKEN....
THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES AND THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
THE JUDGMENT OF MEN Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the priests, Christ’s triumph and the Pharisees’ discomfiture, t...
27. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I to this hour. 28. Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I...
_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...
ΈΣΤΏΣ _perf. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476) стоять, ΆΚΟΎΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ, _см._ John 12:18. _Aor._ описывает предшествующее действие: "после того как они услышали" ΒΡΟΝΤΉ...
THE PEOPLE THEREFORE—SAID THAT IT THUNDERED:— The sound of this voice was evidently supernatural, being strong and loud as thunder; but at the same time so articulate that all who heard Jesus address...
THE MAGNETIC CROSS _Text 12:27-36_ 27 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. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There c...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 43 John 12:20-36 The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The end of our Lord’s public ministry had almost been reach...
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. THE PEOPLE [`THE MULTITUDE' ochlos (G3793 )] THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY, AND HEARD IT, SA...
7 While facing the terrible ordeal of death our Lord found no fellowship with His disciples in the sorrows before Him. Like Peter, they could not entertain such a thought. But it seems that Mary alone...
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...
THE PEOPLE.... SAID THAT IT THUNDERED. — Better, _the multitude._ Nothing could be stronger testimony to the fact that this narrative was written by one who was present at the events of which he tells...
IV. _ THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF THE CROSS._ "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. Father, glorify Thy name. There came...
_The Greeks inquire for Jesus_....
Ὁ οὖν ὄχλος … λελάληκεν. The mass of the people which was standing by and heard the voice did not recognise it as a voice, but said it thundered. Others caught, if not the words, yet enough to perceiv...
SACRIFICE A LAW OF LIFE John 12:20-29 These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek name. The inarticulate...
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...
THE GREEKS COME TO SEE JESUS John 12:20-36. _“And there were certain Greeks of those having come up that they may worship during the festival; then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galil...
SECOND SECTION: 12:1-36. THE LAST DAYS OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. This section includes three parts: 1. The supper of Jesus at Bethany: John 12:1 to John 11:2. His entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12 to...
III. THE LAST SCENE IN THE TEMPLE: JOHN 12:20-36. Of all the events which occurred between Palm-day and Thursday evening, the evening before the Passion, John mentions but one, which is omitted by th...
VV. 28B, 29. “ _Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, I have both glorified it and I will glorify it again._ 29. _The multitude therefore that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered; others...
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. (28) Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I h...
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...
_VOICES OF GOD_ ‘The people therefore, that stood by … An angel spake to Him.’ John 12:29 We know the group who thus failed to recognise the voice of God—Jews, Greeks, unbelieving priests, etc. No...
29._That it thundered. _It was truly monstrous, that the assembled multitude were unmoved by so evident a miracle. Some are so deaf, that they hear as a confused sound what God had distinctly pronounc...
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...
THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT STOOD BY AND HEARD [IT],.... Some more confusedly, who were farthest off; others more distinctly, who were nearer: the first of these, SAID THAT IT THUNDERED; as it used to...
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard _it_, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Ver. 29. _That it thundered; others said, An angel, &c._] But the apostles and some fe...
_Father, glorify thy name_ Whatever I suffer. For this may be considered as a further expression of his resignation, importing that he was willing to submit to whatever the Father should judge necessa...
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...
27-33 The sin of our souls was the troubled of Christ's soul, when he undertook to redeem and save us, and to make his soul an offering for our sin. Christ was willing to suffer, yet prayed to be sav...
THE PEOPLE SAID THAT IT THUNDERED; nor, it may be, were they mistaken, saving only in this, that they thought it was nothing else but thunder (being possibly at such a distance, as they could not dist...
John 12:29 Therefore G3767 people G3793 by G2476 (G5761) and G2532 heard G191 (G5660) said G3004 ...
‘The crowd standing around, heard it and were saying it thundered. Others were saying, “an angel spoke to him”. The actual words of the thunderous cry from Heaven were not understood by the crowd, alt...
John 12:29. THE MULTITUDE THEREFORE, THAT STOOD BY, AND HEARD IT, SAID THAT IT HAD THUNDERED: OTHERS SAID, AN ANGEL HATH SPOKEN TO HIM. That a real voice had been heard is obvious from the fact that t...
Jesus has been doomed to death (John 11:53; John 11:57), and the hour is at hand when He shall be seized, and the sentence executed. But the malice of man cannot interfere with the purposes of God. In...
THAT IT HAD THUNDERED (βροντην γεγονενα). Perfect active infinitive of γινομα in indirect discourse after ελεγεν and the accusative of general reference (βροντην, thunder, as in Mark 3:17), "that t...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
John 12:29 Misinterpretation of the Voice of God I. When we read the history of our Blessed Lord's first coming into the world, and thoroughly realise who He was that came, it is almost impossible no...
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...
John 12:12. On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they beard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Bl...
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...
AN ANGEL SPOKE TO HIM. All heard the sound of the voice, but could not identify it. They knew only that it was something supernormal!...
_Now is My soul troubled._ This struggle is like one of those fissures in its crust which enables science to fathom the bowels of the earth. It lets us read the very inmost depths of our Lord’s being...
_And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus_ THE INCIDENT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like the...
_Father, glorify Thy name_ THE GLORIFIED NAME 1_._ One important aspect of Christian life is the imitation of Christ. But this is not necessarily doing the same things that Christ did, but involves...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:29 CROWD... SAID THAT IT HAD THUNDERED. Events of eternal consequence are occurring. Unbelievers misinterpret them as natural events, showing their spiritual blindness....
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...
1-50 CHAPTER 12 Ver. 1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover_, &c. He came from Ephraim, as the Passover was drawing on when He was to die. And He came to Bethany to prepare Himself for it; nay m...
_The people therefore that stood by, and heard it_ (this trumpet voice of God the Father) _said that it thundered._ Because it was very loud and resonant. Or perhaps because it was not articulate, but...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:20. Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, _i.e._ t...
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...
Acts 23:8; Acts 23:9; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 20:18; Ezekiel 10:5;...
THE HOUR IS COME John 12:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and then Andrew...
The multitude who stood and heard — A sound, but not the distinct words — In the most glorious revelations there may remain something obscure, to exercise our faith. Said, It thundered — Thunder did f...
Observe here, 1. The way of God in speaking to his people by. voice in thunder for the greater declaration of his glory and majesty. Thunderings and lightnings usually attended the voice of God, even...