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John 12:49
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.
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.
Verse John 12:49. _FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF_] I have not spoken for my secular interest: I have not aimed at making any gain of you: I have not set up myself as your teachers in general do, to...
OF MYSELF - John 7:16....
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...
HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF. Of my own mind and will, but it was the Father who had spoken in him. He gave. commandment what the Son should say. It will be seen that this summary repeats ideas that hav...
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)...
I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF: i.e. from Myself. The Lord's constant claim was that His very words were what the Father had given Him to speak. Compare John 3:34; John 7:16; John 8:28;...
_For_ Or, BECAUSE: it introduces the reason why one who rejects Christ's word will be judged by His word; because that word is manifestly Divine and proceeds from the Father. _of myself_ Literally, _o...
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...
ὍΤΙ. BECAUSE. It introduces the reason why one who rejects Christ’s word will be judged by His word;—because that word is manifestly Divine in origin. With ἐξ ἐμαυτοῦ, _out of Myself_ as source, witho...
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...
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...
ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ, _см._ John 12:44. _Aor._ описывает предшествующее действие, ΔΈΔΩΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΕΪΠΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) гово...
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)...
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. FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN [`SPAKE NOT' elaleesa (G2980 )] OF [ ex (G...
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...
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...
FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF. — Comp. John 5:30; John 7:16; John 7:28; John 8:26; John 8:2
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,...
This word will judge him, “because” though spoken here on earth it is divine “I have not spoken at my own instance nor out of my own resources”; ἐξ ἐμαυτοῦ, not as in John 5:30; John 7:16-18, ἀπʼ ἐμαυ...
_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...
“ _For I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and how I should say it;_ 50 _and I know that his commandment is life eternal; what...
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...
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...
49._For I do not speak from myself. _That the outward appearance of man may not lessen the majesty of God, Christ frequently sends us to the Father. This is the reason why he so often mentions the Fat...
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...
FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF,.... As man, or as separate from his Father; his doctrine was not human, but divine, and therefore a rejection of it cannot escape notice at the future judgment: BUT T...
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. Ver. 49. _For I have not spoken of myself_] The divine authority o...
_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...
OF MYSELF; not of my own authority merely, but by the authority and appointment of the Father. Chap John 7:16-18....
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 do not speak what I say to you as mere man, or any thing but what is my Father's will, and mine only as one with him, and as sent by him; I have said nothing but what my Father hath willed me to rev...
Tertullian Against Praxeas How so? Even because, (as He afterwards declares,) "I have not spoken from myself, but the Father which sent me: He hath given me a commandment what I should say, and what...
John 12:49 For G3754 I G1473 have G2980 not G3756 spoken G2980 (G5656) on G1537 own G1683 but...
‘For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me, he has instructed me what I should say and speak. And I know that his instruction is eternal life'. And this is because His 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 12:49. BECAUSE I SPAKE NOT OF MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME, HE HATH GIVEN ME A COMMANDMENT, WHAT I SHOULD SAY, AND WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK. With the first words compare chap. John 3:34; John...
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...
HE HATH GIVEN (δεδωκεν). Perfect active indicative. Christ has permanent commission.WHAT I SHOULD SAY AND WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK (τ ειπω κα τ λαλησω). Indirect question retaining the deliberative su...
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...
_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...
_For I have not spoken of Myself._ CHRIST AS A TEACHER I. HIS PROFOUND HUMILITY. “I have not spoken of Myself.” As if He had said, I take no credit for the thoughts that I have addressed to men: the...
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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:49 NOT... ON MY OWN AUTHORITY indicates that supreme authority in the Trinity belongs to the Father. He gives authority to the Son, though they are both God....
_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...
Deuteronomy 18:18; John 14:10; John 15:15; John 17:8; John 3:11;...
Of myself [ε ξ ε μ α υ τ ο υ]. Out of myself. This formula occurs only here. The usual expression is ajp' ejmautou. Apo, from, as distinguished from ejk, out of, marks rather the point of departure, w...