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John 7:42
Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David; and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David; and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Verse 42. _WHERE DAVID WAS?_] That is, where he was born, 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:4, and where he was before he became king in Israel....
See the notes at Matthew 2:4. WHERE DAVID WAS - 1 Samuel 16:1....
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST. The Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of the ingathering at the end of summer, lasted seven days in early times (Deuteronomy 16:13). An eighth day was added later (Leviticus 2...
CHRIST COMETH OF THE SEED OF DAVID, AND FROM BETHLEHEM. Even the Talmud explains Micah 5:2, as declaring that Bethlehem should be Christ's birthplace. The wise men who came to Jerusalem seeking the yo...
On the last, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. As the scripture says: 'He who believes in me--rivers of living water shall flow fr...
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
THE SEED OF DAVID. Psalms 110; Psalms 132.Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 11:10; Jeremiah
_of the seed of David_ Psalms 132:11; Jeremiah 23:5; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 11:10. _out of the town of Bethlehem_ Literally, from Bethle
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...
ἘΚ Τ. ΣΠ. Δ. Psalms 132:11; Jeremiah 23:5; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 11:10. see on...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSES...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
_DIVISION OVER WHO JESUS IS -- JOHN 7:40-53:_ There was division over the identify of Jesus. Some said He was a fraud and deceiver. Others said that He was the Prophet or that He was the Christ. He wa...
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MANY OF THE PEOPLE THEREFORE,— Our Lord appears to have been discoursing as above, when the officerssent by the council to apprehend him, John 7:32 came up: but as it was an uncommon topic, and he see...
DISCOURSE ON THE LIVING WATER _Text 7:37-52_ 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 38 He that belie...
THE OLD SABBATH CONTROVERSY RENEWED _Text 7:14-53_ 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth thi...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:32-53 The following is a general Outline of the passage which is to be before us:— Before examining in detail the dosing verses of John 7 this will be the bes...
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? HATH NOT THE SCRIPTURE SAID, THAT [`THE'] CHRIST COMETH OF THE SEED OF DAVID...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES John 7:1 to John 10:21. Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6, delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go up to Jeru...
BETHLEHEM] St. John was not ignorant of the birthplace of Jesus. He is here only reporting the words of others....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
HATH NOT THE SCRIPTURE SAID... — Comp. the prophecies in Micah 5:1; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5. WHERE DAVID WAS. — Comp. the history in 1 Samuel 16.
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
_Jesus proclaims His ability to quench human thirst with living water_....
THE BLINDNESS OF PREJUDICE John 7:40-53 These short descriptions of the impressions made on His hearers by the discourses of Jesus indicate the double development which was resulting from His minist...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
IGNORANCE OF THE JEWS John 7:40-44. _“Then some of the multitude, hearing these words, continued to say, Truly this One is the Prophet.”_ This is a phrase in O. T. often applied to the Messiah. _“Othe...
1. THE TRUE SOURCE: 7:37-52. John reports the discourse of Jesus and gives the explanation of it (John 7:37-39); he describes the different impressions of the multitude (John 7:40-44); he gives an acc...
“ _Some among the multitude_, _who had heard these words said, This man is of a truth the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ._ 41. _But others said, Does the Christ then come out of Galilee?_ 42...
III. ON AND AFTER THE GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST: 7:37-8:59. The last and great day of the feast has arrived; Jesus lays aside the apologetic form which until now He has given to His teachings. His word a...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying. If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his be...
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...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
HATH NOT THE SCRIPTURE SAID,.... These objectors were those who were accounted the more wise and knowing; who were conversant with the Scriptures, and pretended at least to a large knowledge of them:...
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? Ver. 42. _Hath not the Scripture said?_] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 2:5 _"_...
_Many of the people therefore_ Even the officers sent to apprehend Christ, (see John 7:46,) as welt as many others of our Lord's hearers; _when they heard this saying_ Namely, the gracious invitation...
OF THE SEED OF DAVID-THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM; all this was fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth; but from the neglect of careful inquiry, they remained ignorant of the fact....
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
40-53 The malice of Christ's enemies is always against reason, and sometimes the staying of it cannot be accounted for. Never any man spake with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing cle...
The Scriptures of the Old Testament had both described the family from whence the Messiah was to arise, viz. the family of David, PSALMS 132:11, and the town, which was Bethlehem, MICAH 5:2; which was...
Origen Against Celsus Book I " It is stated also in the Gospel according to John, that the Jews declared that the Christ was to be born in Bethlehem, "whence David was."[96]...
John 7:42 not G3780 Scripture G1124 said G2036 (G5627) that G3754 Christ G5547 comes G2064 (G5736) from...
THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER (JOHN 7:37). Meanwhile the Feast of Tabernacles was drawing to a close with its emphasis on harvest and the prayers for rain for the coming year. The people were totally dep...
‘But some said, “What? Does the Messiah come out of Galilee?” Has not the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem where David was?” ' Others, however, cast a dam...
John 7:41-42. OTHERS SAID, THIS IS THE CHRIST SOME SAID, WHAT, DOTH THE CHRIST COME OUT OF GALILEE? HATH NOT THE SCRIPTURE SAID. THAT THE CHRIST COMETH OF THE SEED OF DAVID, AND FROM BETHLEHEM, THE VI...
In this section Jesus appears at the feast to which He went up when His Father's, and therefore His own, hour was come. The opportunity afforded by it of teaching is embraced, and we are presented wit...
THE SCRIPTURE (η γραφη). The reference is to Micah 5:2, the very passage quoted by the chief priests and scribes in response to Herod's inquiry (Matthew 2:6). This ignorance of the fact that Jesus...
John 7:30. _Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracle...
John 7:14. _Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught._ He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15. _And the J...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
OTHERS SAID. Who is he??? On their thinking, compare the questions they asked John the Baptist (John 1:19-25). They thought he was a native of Galilee. WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. See notes on Matthew...
_On the last day, that great day of the feast_ JESUS THE CHRIST I. PROFFERING BLESSINGS. 1. Water for the thirsty (John 7:37; Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 7:40 IS THE CHRIST TO COME FROM GALILEE?... HAS NOT THE SCRIPTURE SAID THAT THE CHRIST COMES... FROM BETHLEHEM? Bethlehem is clearly predicted as the Messiah’s birthplace ...
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_Doth not the Scripture say_, &c. As Micah foretold. But Jesus is not the Christ as having been conceived and brought up at Nazareth. But He was born at Bethlehem, and since they had seen so many evid...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:41. THE CHRIST.—Hearts open to the truth were convinced and confessed Him. BUT SOME SAID, ETC.—These were unlike the guileless Nathanael (John 1:46). He asked w...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...
1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:11; 1 Samuel 16:18; 1 Samuel 16:4;...
From Bethlehem — And how could they forget that Jesus was born there? Had not Herod given them terrible reason to remember it? Micah 5:2....