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John 5:43
I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Verse 43. _I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME_] With all his influence and authority. Among the rabbins, it was essential to a teacher's credit that he should be able to support his doctrine by the authori...
I AM COME IN MY FATHER’S NAME - By the authority of God; or giving proof that I am sent by him. IF ANOTHER SHALL COME IN HIS OWN NAME - A false teacher setting up himself, and not even pretending to...
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...
This summary suggests that Jesus-' opponents had accused Him of self-glorification. In answer He traces back their failure to accept His message to want of that love of God which their study of Script...
KNOW YOU. He read their hearts. THE LOVE OF GOD. Love of God is always manifest in obedience to his will. The rejection of Christ, who came in the Father's name, was proof that they were without th...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
And the Father who sent me has home witness about me. You have never heard his voice, nor have you ever seen his form. You do not have his word dwelling in you, because you do not believe in the One w...
HIM, &c. Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:4....
_Not that I seek glory from men; had I done so, you would have received Me. Your worldliness prevents you from receiving One whose motives are not worldly_....
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...
_and ye receive me not_ The tragic tone as in John 5:39, -I come with the highest credentials, as My Father's representative (comp. John 8:42), and ye reject Me." _come in his own name_ As a false Mes...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
ΛΉΜΨΕΣΘΕ for λήψεσθε: John 16:14-15; John 16:24. Winer, p. 53. 43. ΚΑῚ ΟΥ̓ ΛΑΜΒ. The καί of tragic contrast, as in John 5:40. ‘I come with the highest credentials ...
41–44. _Not that I seek glory from men; had I done so, you would have received Me. Your worldliness prevents you from receiving One whose motives are not worldly_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
Ver 41. I receive not honor from men. 42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43. I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, hi...
_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
ΈΛΉΛΥΘΑ _pejrf. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) делать. Терминативный perf. подчеркивает завершенность прихода и его текущий аспект, Его присутствие, ΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ идти. Обобщ. _aor...
I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME,— He came with a commission from his heavenly Father, to promote his glory, and a spiritual salvation from sin and wrath; and produced several unexceptionable witnesses t...
THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES _Text 5:39-47_ 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:31-47 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Every comm...
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME, AND YE RECEIVE ME NOT: IF ANOTHER SHALL COME IN HIS...
31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion, that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
IF ANOTHER] 'A false Messiah, adapting his views to your carnal ideas, you will receive.' Our Lord's words were literally fulfilled a century later, when the bulk of the nation accepted the claims of...
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...
I AM COME IN MY FATHER’S NAME. — So far from self-assertion or honour-seeking, He came in the name of, as representing, the Father, guided only by His will, doing only His work (John 4:34). Had they l...
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...
ἐγὼ ἐλήλυθα … It is just because I have come in the Father's name that you do not receive me. Not really loving God, they could not appreciate and accept Jesus who came in God's name, that is, who tru...
WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED John 5:39-47 Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to use them....
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...
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.”...
III. THE CONDEMNATION OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 5:41-47. In John 5:41-44, Jesus unfolds the cause of the moral antipathy which keeps them away from Him; in John 5:45-47, the terrible consequences of th...
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...
“ _I receive not my glory from men._ 42. _But I know you, [and I know] that ye have not the love of God in yourselves._ 43. _I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come...
VER. 43. The result of this contrast between His moral tendency and theirs. While they reject Him, the Messiah, whose whole appearance bears the seal of dependence on God, they will receive with eager...
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...
43._I have come in my Father’s name _The false prophets do indeed boast of this title, as the Pope, in the present day, boasts with open mouth that he is Christ’s _Deputy _or _Vicar_; and under this v...
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...
I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME,.... Power and authority; by his consent, with his will, and according to a covenant with him: Christ came not of himself, of his own accord, by a separate power and will...
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. Ver. 43. _Him will ye receive_] As they did Barchochab; and that Pseudo-Moses (the de...
_I receive not honour from men_ I need it not; I seek it not from you for my own sake. As if he had said, Though I speak of your coming to me as necessary in order to your salvation, it is not out of...
IN MY FATHER'S NAME; by his appointment, and with conclusive evidence of being sent of him. IN HIS OWN NAME; without being sent of God; actuated by a worldly spirit, and promising them temporal domin...
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...
39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scripture...
I am come clothed with an authority from my Father, sent by him for this very purpose, to reveal his will to men for their salvation; I speak, I do nothing but by the authority of my Father which sent...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V The Lord also spoke as follows to those who did not believe in Him: "I have come in my Father's name, and ye have not received Me: when another shall come in his own...
John 5:43 have G1473 come G2064 (G5754) in G1722 My G3450 Fathers G3962 name G3686 and G2532 not...
“But I know that you do not have love for God (literally ‘the love of God' where the genitive is objective) within yourselves. I am come in my Father's name and you do not receive me, if another comes...
John 5:43. I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME, AND YE RECEIVE ME NOT. Referring everything to His Father's power and presence, in everything doing His Father's will and not His own, at all times seeking Hi...
The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
IN MY FATHER'S NAME (εν τω ονοματ του πατρος μου). Seven times Jesus in John speaks of the "Name" of the Father (John 5:43; John 10:25; John 12:28; John 17:6;...
John 5:24. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,_ If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his S...
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...
BUT I KNOW YOU. This is fact! He could look deep down inside them to see what they really were. WITH MY FATHER'S AUTHORITY. If they had really loved God, they would have believed in Jesus. WHEN SOMEON...
_I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not._ Whence learn I. Albeit Christ be God over all, equal with the Father, and Lord over His own house, and so acts in His own name, yet IT PLEASED...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:43 I HAVE COME IN MY FATHER’S NAME. Jesus came with God the Father’s authority and represented the Father’s entire character. IF ANOTHER COMES. Jesus predicted the appearing of fal...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
_I am come_, &c., _in My Father's name_, as the Son-sent by God the Father, that by His authority I may fulfil those things which He has promised to you concerning Messiah, to His alone praise and glo...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He s...
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...
Acts 21:38; Acts 5:36; Acts 5:37; Ezekiel 23:21; Hebrews 5:4;...
If another shall come — Any false Christ....