Do not marvel at this power which I tell you the Father hath given me, to execute in the world justice and judgment; to raise some particular persons from a natural death, and whom he pleaseth from the spiritual death of sin: for the hour is coming, when all those who are in the graves, shall, by an archangel, Matthew 24:31 1 Thessalonians 4:16, hear my voice, commanding them to arise; and they shall obey my command.
Verse 28. _MARVEL NOT AT THIS_] I think it quite necessary to follow here, as noted above, the punctuation of _both_ the _Syriac_, the _Armenian, Chrysostom, Damascenus, Theophylact, Euthymius_, and...
MARVEL NOT - Do not wonder or be astonished at this. THE HOUR IS COMING - The “time” is approaching or will be. ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES - All the dead, of every age and nation. They are described...
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...
THE SON'S DEPENDENCE ON THE FATHER. JUDGMENT AND LIFEGIVING. To the charge of blasphemy He answers that a son can only do what he has learned to do by watching his father, who out of love shows him ho...
MARVEL NOT AT THIS. What marvel that the Son should give spiritual life to those dead in sins and sit as Judge, when even those in their graves shall come forth at his command? He who had power to re...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
This is the truth I tell you--the hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and, when they have heard, they will live. For, as the Father has life in himself, so h...
This is the truth I tell you--the Son cannot do anything which proceeds from himself. He can only do what he sees the Father doing. In whatever way the Father acts, the Son likewise acts in the same w...
THE GRAVES. the tombs. Therefore they are not in heaven or hell....
_Marvel not_ Comp. John 3:7. Marvel not that the Son can grant spiritual life to them that believe, and separate from them those who will not believe. There cometh an hour when He shall cause a genera...
_The intimacy of the Son with the Father proved by the twofold power committed to the Son_(a) _of communicating spiritual life_, (b) _of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead_....
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 intimacy between the Father and the Son further proved by the power committed to the Son of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead....
THE PREROGATIVES AND POWERS OF THE SON OF GOD...
28, 29. The intimacy between the Father and the Son further proved by the power committed to the Son of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead....
25, 28. ἈΚΟΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ. We cannot determine with certainty between this form (John 16:13?) and ἀκούσονται: ἀκούσομαι is the more common future in N.T. On ΖΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ (John 5:25) see on John 6:57. 28. ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜ...
21–29. _The intimacy of the Son with the Father proved by the twofold power committed to the Son_ (a) _of communicating spiritual life_, (b) _of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead_....
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
VER 27. AND HAS GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. 28. MARVEL NOT AT THIS: FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE...
_THE AUTHORITY OF THE SON OF GOD -- JOHN 5:19-30:_ In a lengthy reply to the Jews Jesus gave proof of His deity and ministry. Jesus declared that the Son can do nothing on His own. As the Son of God,...
ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ (G2296) удивляться, поражаться. С отр. ΜΉ (G3361) запрещает текущее действие, ΜΝΗΜΕΊΟΝ (G3419) могила; это усиливает контраст между физически и духовно мерт...
DISCOURSE: 1628 THE RESURRECTION John 5:28. _The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of...
MARVEL NOT AT THIS;— "Be not surprised at my saying that the Son has power to raise a few particular persons from the dead, and authority to inflict judgment on some particular offenders: a far greate...
POWERS INHERENT IN THAT DEITY _Text 5:24-29_ 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath pa...
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...
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, MARVEL NOT AT THIS - this committal of all judgment to the Son of Man. FOR THE HOUR IS CO...
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...
5:28 hour (b-7) See 1 John 2:18 ....
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...
The literal resurrection at the last day is meant....
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...
MARVEL NOT AT THIS — i.e., that He has Himself a source of life and authority to judge. There shall follow from this “greater works,” at which they shall marvel. There is an hour coming (here not with...
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...
And another reason for restraining surprise is ὅτι ἔρχεται ὥρα, etc. It has been proposed to render this as if ὅτι were explanatory of τοῦτο, do not wonder at this, that an hour is coming. But (1) τοῦ...
THE FATHER WORKING THROUGH THE SON John 5:19-29 The relationship of our Lord to the Father was such that He felt Himself competent to fulfill all the functions of the Divine Being. Is it God's prerog...
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...
(7) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (7) All will eventually appear before the judgment seat of Christ to be judged....
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.”...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XXVIII. Vv. 19-29. 1. The reference in John 5:19 ff., to the union between the Son and the Father is to the complete union in working, which is founded upon...
“ _Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice and shall come forth_, 29, _those who have done good, unto a resurrection of life, those who have done...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_THE TWO RESURRECTIONS_ ‘Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrectio...
28._Wonder not at this. _We may be apt to think that he reasons inconclusively, in drawing from the last resurrection a confirmation of what he had said; for it is not an instance of greater power to...
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...
MARVEL NOT AT THIS,.... Either at the cure of the man that had been diseased thirty and eight years, as some think; or at the Son of God being also the son of man, as the Syriac version suggests; or r...
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, Ver. 28. _Marvel not at this_] And yet who can but marvel at this great mystery of godliness,...
_Verily, he that heareth my word, &c., hath everlasting life_ Such a person is already entitled to it, yea, it is already begun in his soul, and he shall shortly possess it in its full perfection: _an...
THE HOUR IS COMING-ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE; he passes to the greatest and most astonishing manifestation which he is to make of the truth that he has life in himself; namely, t...
MARVEL NOT AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE,...
The coming of the Judgment:...
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...
24-29 Our Lord declared his authority and character, as the Messiah. The time was come when the dead should hear his voice, as the Son of God, and live. Our Lord first refers to his raising those who...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V the dead shall be raised, as He Himself declares: "The hour shall come, in which all the dead which are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and shall...
John 5:28 not G3361 marvel G2296 (G5720) this G5124 for G3754 hour G5610 coming G2064 (G5736) in...
“Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have pr...
THE SON HAS THE POWER TO OFFER EVERLASTING LIFE NOW (JOHN 5:24). He now goes on to reveal His uniqueness by the fact that He can both give men eternal life now, and will be responsible both for man's...
JESUS CONFIRMS THEIR VIEW OF HIS EQUALITY WITH GOD AND POINTS TO THE RESURRECTION (JOHN 5:19). Jesus now expands on His claim to be co-equal with the Father. He does not want them to be in any doubt,...
John 5:28. MARVEL NOT AT THIS. Jesus has been speaking of works at which they may well marvel (John 5:20); but great as these may be, there is yet a greater. BECAUSE AN HOUR COMETH, IN THE WHICH ALL...
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 THE TOMBS (εν τοις μνημειοις). Ταφος (grave) presents the notion of burial (θαπτω, to bury) as in Matthew 23:27, μνημειον (from μναομα, μιμνησκω, to remind) is a memorial (sepulchre as a monument...
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...
DO NOT BE SURPRISED AT THIS. That is, at the fact that the Father has given the Son the right to judge. Jesus here points out the BODILY raising of all the dead! This was one of the facts of the Good...
_The hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice_ THE GENERAL RESURRECTION I. The RESURRECTION. 1. Its subjects. All who are in their graves. (1) The almost unive...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:28 Jesus reaffirms the resurrection on the last day. Compare Daniel 12:2. THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD... THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL does not imply that people
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....
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...
_Marvel not_, &c.... _the hour_, _i.e._, the time of the Evangelical Law, which is the last, and in the end of which shall be the resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment. _In their graves_ :...
_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...
1 Corinthians 15:22; 1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Acts 3:12;...
The graves [τ ο ι ς μ ν η μ ε ι ο ι ς]. Rev., better; tombs. Two words are used in the New Testament for the place of burial, tafov, and mnhmeion or mnhma. The former emphasizes the idea of burial (qa...
The time is coming — When not two or three, but all shall rise....
Is Jesus advocating salvation by works? PROBLEM: Jesus says in John’s Gospel that the time is coming when people in the graves will hear His voice “and come forth—those who have done good, to the res...
Our Saviour, finding the Jews amazed and astonished at his declaring his sovereign and supreme authority and power to quicken and raise whom he pleased from the dead, doth in these verses assure them...