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John 12:47
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.
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.
Verse John 12:47. _AND BELIEVE NOT_] και μη φυλαξη, _And keep them not_, is the reading of ABL, _seven_ others; _Syriac, Wheelock's Persian_, two of the _Arabic, Coptic, Sahidic, AEthiopic, Armenian_,...
I JUDGE HIM NOT ... - John 8:15. It was not his present purpose to condemn men. He would come to condemn the guilty at a future time. At present he came to save them. Hence he did not now even pronoun...
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...
JUDGE HIM NOT. In declaring that he judges not those who hear his words and believe not, he is not inconsistent. In the day of judgment he shall sit upon the throne, not to condemn the world that he...
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...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
WORDS. sayings. Greek. _rhema._ See note on Mark 9:32. JUDGE. Greek. _krino._ App-122....
_hear my words_ -Hear" is a neutral word, implying neither belief nor unbelief. Matthew 7:24; Matthew 7:26; Mark 4:15-16. For -words" read SAYINGS (see on...
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...
ΦΥΛΆΞΗΙ for πιστεύσῃ, on overwhelming authority. 47. ἈΚΟΎΣΗΙ. In a neutral sense, implying neither belief nor unbelief (Matthew 7:24; Matthew 7:26; Mark 4:15-16). For ῥήματα see on...
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...
ΆΚΟΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как возможное, ΦΥΛΆΞΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΦΥΛΆΣΣΩ (G5442) стеречь, сохраня...
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)...
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. AND IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORDS, AND BELIEVE NOT, [ pisteusee (G4100)]. The t...
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...
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...
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...
AND BELIEVE NOT] RV 'and keep them not.' I JUDGE HIM NOT] cp. John 5:45; John 8:15; John 8:26. I CAME NOT] cp. John 3:17....
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...
AND IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORDS, AND BELIEVE NOT. — The better reading is,... _and keep them not._ (Comp., for the words “hear” and “keep,” Notes on Luke 11:28; Luke 18:21.) For the thought of the verse...
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,...
But “if any one should hear my words and not keep them I do not judge him, for I came not to judge,” etc. See John 3:17....
_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...
_I do not judge him. To judge here, may signify to condemn. St. Augustine expounds it in this manner: I do not judge him at this my first coming. St. John Chrysostom says, it is not I only that judget...
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...
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...
“ _And if any one hear my sayings and keep them not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world._ 48. _He that rejects me and receives not my sayings has already his jud...
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...
47._If any man hear my words. _After having spoken concerning his grace, and exhorted his disciples to steady faith, he now begins to strike the rebellious, though even here he mitigates the severity...
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...
AND IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORDS AND BELIEVE NOT,.... Men may hear the Gospel of Christ, and not understand it; and they may understand it literally and grammatically, though not spiritually and experimen...
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. Ver. 47. _I judge him not_] viz. While I am here on earth. I sustain another...
John 12:47. See note on John 5:45. John 13:10...
_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...
I CAME NOT TO JUDGE; it was then his business to act not as judge, but as Saviour....
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 JUDGE HIM NOT; I alone judge him not, or rather, it is not my present business to pronounce sentence of condemnation against him; I am now doing the work of a Redeemer and Saviour, not of a Judge: h...
Dialogue of Justin Wherefore also our Lord Jesus Christ said, `In whatsoever things I shall take you, in these I shall judge you.'"[147]...
John 12:47 And G2532 if G3362 anyone G5100 hears G191 (G5661) My G3450 words G4487 and G2532 not...
‘If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge, the word...
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...
John 12:47. AND IF ANY ONE SHALL HAVE HEARD MY SAYINGS AND HAVE GUARDED THEM NOT. It is necessary here to introduce an unusual word in the translation. To ‘keep' the sayings or words of Jesus is a phr...
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...
IF ANY ONE (εαν τις). Third-class condition with εαν and first aorist active subjunctive (ακουση) of ακουω and same form (φυλαξη) of φυλασσω with negative μη.BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD (αλλ' ινα σωσω τ...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
John 12:47 _(with John 12:22)_ Christ the Saviour Both these passages convey a truth of very great importance, and which requires to be fully received; and both taken together, give us the exact vie...
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...
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...
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...
I WILL NOT JUDGE HIM. The word which he has spoken will measure everyone! God sent the Son into the world to be the world's Savior. God acted in history through Jesus. Because this is true, we may be...
_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...
_If any man hear My words_ I. THE GREATEST SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGE THAT MAN CAN ENJOY. It is a priceless privilege to hear the words of any great sage, poet, moralist. But what are the best human words...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:47 I DID NOT COME TO JUDGE THE WORLD refers to Jesus’ first coming. However, he will judge the world when he returns (see v. John 12:48;...
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 4:14; 1 Timothy 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:16; 2 Peter 3:15; John 12:48
Believe not [μ η π ι σ τ ε υ σ η]. The best texts read fulaxh, keep (them). Came [η λ θ ο ν]. The aorist tense, pointing to the purpose of the coming, as I am come (ver. 46) to the result. Compare Joh...
I judge him not — Not now: for I am not come to judge the world. See, Christ came to save even them that finally perish! Even these are a part of that world, which he lived and died to save....