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John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Verse 31. _NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD_] The judgment spoken of in this place is applied by some to the punishment which was about to fall on the Jewish people for rejecting Christ. And the rul...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD - Greek: “crisis.” This expression, doubtless, has reference to his approaching death, and whatever he means by judgment here relates to something that was to be acco...
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...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD. _Now,_ "this hour," the "hour" referred to in verses 23d and 27th, the hour for which he had come into the world, the hour of the cross; that was to be the hour of...
"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)...
JUDGMENT. Greek. _crisis_ (App-177.); i.e. the crisis reached when the world pronounced judgment against Christ and His claims. PRINCE. ruler. Greek. _archon;_ applied to Satan as prince of this world...
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,...
_Now … now_ With prophetic certainty Christ speaks of the victory as already won. _the judgment of this world_ The sentence passed on this world (see on John 3:17 and John 5:29) for refusing to belie...
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...
THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES AND THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
ΝΥ͂Ν … ΝΥ͂Ν. With prophetic certainty He speaks of the victory as already won: comp. ὄπου ΕἸΜΊ (John 12:26). Κρίσις τ. κόσμου τ. is the sentence passed on this world (John 3:17; John 5:29) for refusin...
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...
ΤΟΎ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ (G2889) _obj. gen._ "суд над миром" ΆΡΧΩΝ _praes. act. part. (subst.)_ от ΆΡΧΩ (G757) править, ΈΚΒΛΗΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΒΆΛΛΩ (G1544) выгонять, выбрасывать. Это отрицательное о...
DISCOURSE: 1674 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S DEATH John 12:31; John 12:32. _Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD:— The subject of our Lord's address to the Father, and the answer which he received, naturally led him to meditate on the happy effects of his coming into the world;...
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...
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD - the world that "crucified the Lord of glory" (), considered as a vast and com...
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...
NOW (i.e. within a few days) IS THE JUDGMENT (or, a judgment) OF THIS WORLD] i.e. of the persons in it. Christ's death followed by His Resurrection is a 'judgment,' because it is a deliberate challeng...
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...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD. — For the word “judgment” comp. Notes on John 3:17; John 16:11. There is here, following on the coming of the Greeks, which He reads as a sign, and upon the voice fr...
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...
It was a trial not so much of Him as of the world: νῦν κρίσις ἐστὶ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου. In the events of the next few days the world was to be judged by its treatment of Jesus. _Cf._ John 3:18; John 5:2...
_The Greeks inquire for Jesus_....
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...
Now is the judgment of the world: their condemnation, says St. John Chrysostom, for not believing. --- The prince of this world, that is, the devil, shall be cast out from that great tyranny, which he...
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...
“ _Jesus answered and said: Not for my sake has this voice made itself heard, but for your sakes._ 31. _Now is the judgment of this world;now shall the prince of this world be cast out._ 32. _And I, w...
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...
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. (32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me, (33) This he said, signifying what death he...
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...
31._Now is the judgment of this world. _The Lord now, as if he had already succeeded in the contest, boasts of having obtained a victory not only over fear, but over death; for he describes, in lofty...
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...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD,.... That is, in a very short time will be the judgment either of the Jewish world, when that shall be reproved, convinced, and condemned for their sin of rejecting C...
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Ver. 31. _The prince of this world_] Gratian saith, the devil is called the prince of this world, as a king at chess...
_Now is the judgment of this world_ Which I am going to conquer and condemn, that by my death my followers may both be taught and enabled to triumph over it, and those may be convinced of sin that bel...
THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD; the time when this world, which is opposed to me and under the power of Satan, is to be conquered and subdued to myself. PRINCE OF THIS WORLD; Satan. CAST OUT; conquered,...
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 terms JUDGMENT and WORLD are taken so variously in the New Testament, and particularly in this very Gospel, that they have given interpreters a great liberty to vary in their senses of this passag...
Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection And our Lord Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, for no other reason than that He might destroy the begetting by lawless desire, and might show...
John 12:31 Now G3568 is G2076 (G5748) judgment G2920 this G5127 world G2889 now G3568 ruler G758 this...
‘ “Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out, and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself”. (He said this to show by what death he wou...
John 12:31. NOW IS THERE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD. The ‘now' is the ‘now' of John 12:27, the ‘hour' of John 12:23; and the primary thought to be taken into it is that of the suffering and death in the m...
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...
THE JUDGEMENT (κρισις). No article, "A judgement." The next few days will test this world.THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD (ο αρχων του κοσμου τουτου). This phrase here, descriptive of Satan as in possess...
JUDGMENTS The Seven Judgments. (1) Of Jesus Christ as bearing the believer's sins. The sins of believers have been judged in the person of Jesus Christ "lifted up" on the cross. The result was death...
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...
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...
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...
NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE WORLD TO BE JUDGED. The Cross became his throne, and he received the Crown! See Philippians 2:5-11. NOW THE RULER OF THIS WORLD. It must be frustrating to be the Devil! He neve...
_Now is the Judgment of this world_ THE WORLD’S HOUR OF DEEPEST REVOLUTION It was the signal I. OF ITS JUDGMENT. To judge is to verify the moral condition. The judgment of the world is based upon th...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:31 The RULER OF THIS WORLD in its present fallen, sinful state is Satan (compare John 14:30;...
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...
_Now is the judgment of this world_, &c. Judgment here signifies condemnation, the condemnation of the Jews for condemning Me to death. So SS. Chrysostom, Theophylact, and Euthymius. But others unders...
_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...
1 John 3:8; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Acts 26:18; Colossians 2:15; Ephesian
The prince of this world [ο α ρ χ ω ν ρ ο υ κ ο σ μ ο υ τ ο υ τ ο υ]. The phrase occurs only in the Gospel; here, John 14:30; John 16:11. Shall be cast out [ε κ β λ η θ η σ ε τ α ι ε ξ ω]. In every ca...
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...
Now — This moment. And from this moment Christ thirsted more than ever, till his baptism was accomplished. Is the judgment of this world — That is, now is the judgment given concerning it, whose it sh...