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John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.
Verse 46. _I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD_] Probably referring to what his forerunner had said, John 1:5. Before the coming of this Saviour, this sun of righteousness, into the world, all was darkn...
A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD - John 8:12; John 1:9; John 3:19. WALK IN DARKNESS - In gross and dangerous errors. Darkness is put for error as well as for sin,...
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. ...
FINAL SUMMARY OF JESUS-' PUBLIC TEACHING. This summing up of what was most important in the teaching of Jesus throws interesting light on the author's method of recording the speeches. Belief in Jesus...
AM COME. LIGHT INTO THE WORLD. It was the office of Christ to make all things clear. His mission and person illuminate the mysteries of our being and destiny when they are seen in their fulness. In ma...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
Jesus cried and said: "He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. And he who looks upon me, looks upon him who sent me. It was as light that I came into the world, that ever...
I AM COME, &c. Compare John 8:12....
_I am come_ Emphatic; -I and none other." Comp. John 12:35; John 8:12; John 9:5. _abide in darkness_ Till the Light comes, all are in darkness; the question remains whether they will remain so _after...
The Judgment of Christ The Evangelist has just summed up the results of Christ's ministry (37 43). He now corroborates that estimate by Quoting Christ Himself. But as John 12:36 seems to give us the...
THE JUDGMENT OF CHRIST The Evangelist has just summed up the results of Christ’s ministry (37–43). He now corroborates that estimate by quoting Christ Himself. But as John 12:36 seems to give us the c...
ἘΓῺ ΦΩ͂Σ. _I_, with great emphasis, _am come as light_ (John 12:35-36; John 8:12; John 9:5). ἽΝΑ, of the Divine purpose. Till the Light comes all are in darkness ...
Ver 44. Jesus cried and said, He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me. 45. And he that sees me sees him that sent me. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever b...
_JESUS CAME TO SAVE THE WORLD -- JOHN 12:44-50:_ Jesus spoke of faith in God saying, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me." Jesus mission was to cause people to belie...
ΈΛΉΛΥΘΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Perf._ акцентирует прошлое действие и длительные текущие результаты. ΜΕΊΝΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) оставаться. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443)...
I AM COME A LIGHT, &C.— "I am _the light of the world, s_ent down from heaven, to dispel the darkness of ignorance, superstition, and wickedness, and to reveal the will of my Father, and the way to et...
THE IMPERATIVE WORDS _Text 12:44-50_ 44 And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me. 4...
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)...
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON ME SHOULD NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS....
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...
12:46 on (b-14) _ Eis_ . see ver. 11....
Cp. John 8:12; John 9:5; John 9:39 etc....
JUDGMENT OF JESUS UPON THEIR UNBELIEF. He refuses to condemn them formally (John 12:47), because His First Coming was not to judge, but to save. Yet He adds that in the Last Day they will be self-cond...
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...
I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD... — (Comp. Note on John 12:35 and John 3:19; John 8:12; John 9:5;...
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,...
ἐγὼ φῶς … μείνῃ. “I am come into the world as light,” and in the connection, especially as light upon God and His relation to men. The purpose of His coming was to deliver men from their native darkne...
_A summary of the teaching of Jesus regarding the nature and consequences of faith and unbelief_....
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...
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...
SUPREMACY OF THE WORD John 12:44-50. _“And Jesus cried out and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me; and he that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me.”_ In this affi...
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...
“ _Now Jesus cried, saying, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me;_ 45 _and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me;_ 46 _I am come as a light into the world, that w...
II. THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAITH AND UNBELIEF: JOHN 12:44-50. Israel was not only blinded with reference to the signs; it was deaf as regarded the testimonies which accompanied them, and this is what fin...
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...
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...
46._I am come into the worm as a light. _In order to render his disciples more bold and persevering, he proceeds still farther in maintaining the certainty of faith. And, first, he testifies that _he...
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...
I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD,.... And even as the light of it, being the sun of righteousness, that was to arise, and now was risen, to enlighten men with the light of the living; see John 3:19;...
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Ver. 46. _I am come a light into the world_] Not by participation only (as the apostles were the lights...
_Jesus_ On some occasion or other, soon after this, in order to strengthen the faith of those timid and diffident disciples (if such they could be called) last mentioned, and to inspire them with cour...
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...
44-50 Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father,...
I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD; this is no more than what our Saviour hath often said, 1 THESSALONIANS 3:19, and 1 THESSALONIANS 9:5; and it was according to the prophecy of him, Isaiah 42:6
John 12:46 I G1473 come G2064 (G5754) light G5457 into G1519 world G2889 that G3363 whoever G3956 believes...
‘I have come as light into the world so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.' With the coming of Jesus light has come into the world (compare John 1:5), a light that reveals the glo...
A FINAL SUMMARY OF HIS TEACHING (JOHN 12:44). John is now concerned that the last that we hear of Jesus before the hours leading up to His crucifixion will be the essence of His message, a message th...
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...
John 12:46. AS LIGHT I HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD, THAT EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME MAY NOT ABIDE IN THE DARKNESS. Here we have the substance of the Saviour's last words to the multitude (John 12:35-...
I AM COME A LIGHT (Εγω φως εληλυθα). As in John 3:19; John 9:5; John 8:12; John 12:35. Final clause (negative) also here (ινα μη μεινη, first aorist active subjunctiv...
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...
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 12:20. 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...
_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...
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...
_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...
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 1:1; 1 John 2:8; 1 John 2:9; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 5:14;...