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John 5:17-20
The Relation between the Father and the Son.
Jesus gives the Jews an answer:
The Relation between the Father and the Son.
Jesus gives the Jews an answer:
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Verse John 5:17. _MY FATHER WORKED HITHERTO, AND I WORK._] Or, As _my_ _Father worketh until now_, c., καθως being understood. God created the world in _six days_: on the _seventh_ he rested from all...
MY FATHER - God. WORKETH HITHERTO - Worketh “until now,” or until this time. God has not ceased to work on the Sabbath. He makes the sun to rise; He rolls the stars; He causes the grass, the tree, the...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO, AND. WORK. The answer of Jesus to his accusers goes to the very root of the matter. The basis on which the Sabbath rested was that God had ceased his creative labors on the...
It was Sabbath on that day. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "It is Sabbath and you have no right to lift your bed." He answered them: "He who made me well, it was he who said to me: 'L...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
MY FATHER. See note on John 2:16. WORKETH. Compare John 9:4, and see App-176. HITHERTO UNTIL NOW. referring to the O.T. Dispensation. Now Jehovah was speaking "by His Son "(Hebrews 1:2). AND. WORK....
The Prerogatives and Powers of the Son of God 17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of the Son to the Father_. _My Father worketh hitherto_, &c. Or, _My Father_ IS WORKING...
The Discourse on the Son as the Source of Life 17. _answered them_ This was how He met their constant persecution. The discourse which follows (see introductory note to chap. 3) may be thus analysed....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
THE PREROGATIVES AND POWERS OF THE SON OF GOD...
17, 18. _Defence of healing on the Sabbath based on the relation of the Son to the Father_....
ἈΠΕΚΡΊΝΑΤΟ. The middle occurs in S. John only here, John 5:19, and John 12:23 (?). This was how He met their constant persecution. The discourse which follows (see introductory note to chap. 3) may be...
Ver 14. Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to you. 15. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, wh...
_JESUS IS EQUAL WITH GOD -- JOHN 5:14-18:_ After Jesus healed the man He went into the Temple and found the man. He told him, "You are now well. But do not sin anymore or something worse might happen...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΝΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ John 5:7. Med. указывает на действие юридическое, "отвечать на обвинение" "защищаться" (Morris; ММ). Хотя высказывания оппонентов не приводятся, ответ следует р...
DISCOURSE: 1625 CHRIST’S EQUALITY WITH THE FATHER John 5:17. _Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had brok...
MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO,— Jesus began his defence with shewing the rulers the unreasonableness of their displeasurewith him, because he had restored the infirm man to health on the sabbath-day. He...
SABBATH CONTROVERSY _Text 5:10-18_ 10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. 11 But he answered them, He that made me whole...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:16-30 We present our customary Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. It sets forth the absolute equality of the Son with the Father:— There is an...
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. BUT JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO, AND I WORK. The "I" here is emphatic [ kagoo (G2504)] - q.d., 'The creative an...
10 The day on which the cure was effected indicates that its fulfillment will find place in that great sabbatism that remains for God's people of the Circumcision (Heb_4:9). As a pallet was a mere bun...
RV 'My Father worketh even unto now, and I work.' (1) These words enunciate a new ideal of the sabbath. The 'rest' of God after the creation, which the sabbath typifies, is not mere inertia, but activ...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO (or, _up to this moment_). — They charge Him with breaking the law of God. His answer to this charge is that His action was the result of His Sonship and unity with that God...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
In some informal way these accusations were brought to the ears of Jesus, and His defence was: Ὁ πατήρ μου … ἐργάζομαι. “My Father until now works, and I work”; as if the work of the Father had not co...
SABBATH WORK THAT PLEASES THE FATHER John 5:10-18 In the foregoing incident our Lord not only healed the sufferer after thirty-eight years of deferred hope, but did so on the Sabbath, and bade him ca...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
(3) But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (3) The work of God was never the breach of the sabbath, and the works of Christ are the works of the Father, both because they ar...
My father worketh until now: [3] and I work. The Jews looked upon it of obligation to do nothing on the sabbath, because God is said to have rested the seventh day; on which account the rest on the se...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
VER. 17. “ _Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now, and I work._ ” The aorist middle ἀπεκρίνατο is found only here and in John 5:19; perhaps also John 12:23. Its use may be occasioned by the...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
17._My Father worketh hitherto. _We must see what kind of defense Christ employs. He does not reply that the Law about keeping the Sabbath was temporary, and that it ought now to be abolished; but, on...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
BUT JESUS ANSWERED THEM,.... Being convened before them, and charged by them with the violation of the sabbath, he vindicated himself in the following manner, saying; MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO: he w...
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Ver. 17. _My Father worketh_] Yet without labour or lassitude, in conserving the whole creature. This he doth every day, and yet break...
_Jesus answered_ “By _the Jews_, who in the preceding verses are said to have persecuted Jesus, we are to understand the rulers, as appears from John 5:33, where Jesus, speaking to the persons who sou...
WORKETH HITHERTO; worketh without intermission in upholding and quickening creation, ever since the day when he finished it. I WORK; he claimed to be the Son of God in such a sense that he had the pow...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
17-23 The Divine power of the miracle proved Jesus to be the Son of God, and he declared that he worked with, and like unto his Father, as he saw good. These ancient enemies of Christ understood him,...
We read of no objection they made to Christ, as to what he had done, only that they persecuted him, which they might do without speaking to him: but it should seem by what we read in this verse, that...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I For what is the use of wisdom, if it makes not him who can hear it wise? For still the Saviour saves, "and always works, as He sees the Father."[29] Tertullian...
John 5:17 But G1161 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 My G3450 Father G3962 working G2038 ...
THE HEALING OF THE DISABLED MAN AT THE POOL (JOHN 5:1). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in mind. H...
‘But Jesus answered them, “My Father works even until now, and I work”. Jesus' reply to the charge of breaking the Sabbath is a powerful one. ‘My Father is still at work, and I also am working'. No on...
John 5:17. BUT HE ANSWERED THEM, MY FATHER WORKETH UNTIL NOW: I ALSO WORK. In three different ways does our Lord rebut the charge which His foes so often brought against Him, that He broke the sabbath...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth and leading division of the Gospel, extending to the close of chap. 12. Its object is to set Jesus forth in the height of His conflict with...
ANSWERED (απεκρινατο). Regular aorist middle indicative of αποκρινομα, in John here only and verse John 5:19, elsewhere απεκριθη as in verse John 5:11.MY FATHER (ο πατερ μου). Not "our Father," c...
John 5:17 I do not think there is a better characteristic of the more earnest thinking of these days than its profound reverence for faithful work; its profound sense that if a man have found his work...
John 5:1. _After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem._ For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
My FATHER WORKS ALWAYS, AND I TOO MUST WORK. The basis of the Sabbath _recess,_ was that God had _recessed_ his work of creation on the seventh day. But God had not _quit,_ but continued to do his wor...
_After this there was a feast of the Jews_ THE POOL OF BETHESDA, A TYPE OF FAVOURED LOCALITIES IN A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE HIGHEST MIRACULOUS AID HAS NOT YET APPEARED The miraculous aid is...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:17 MY FATHER suggests a closer relationship with God than other people had (see John 20:17). “My Father IS WORKING UNTIL NOW,...
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_But Jesus answered_, &c. " _The Father worketh_," says S. Augustine (_lib._ 4. _de Gen., cap._ 12), "both affording suitable government to things created and having in Himself eternal tranquillity:...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
1 Corinthians 12:6; Acts 14:17; Acts 17:28; Colossians 1:16; Genesis
Worketh. The discussion turned on work on the Sabbath. The Father's work in maintaining and redeeming the world has continued from the creation until the present moment [ε ω ς α ρ τ ι] : until now, no...
My Father worketh until now, and I work — From the creation till now he hath been working without intermission. I do likewise. This is the proposition which is explained John 5:19, confirmed and vindi...
From this verse to the end of the chapter, we have our Saviour's apology for his working the foregoing cure on the impotent man on the sabbath day. And the chief argument he insists upon, is drawn fro...