John Trapp Complete Commentary
John 5:47
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Ver. 47. But if ye believe not his writings] He that will not take God's word in one place will take it in no place.
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Ver. 47. But if ye believe not his writings] He that will not take God's word in one place will take it in no place.
Verse John 5:47. _BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS_, c.] If you lay them not to heart - if you draw not those conclusions from them which their very letter, as well as their spirit, authorizes you...
IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS - If you do not credit what he has written which you profess to believe, it is not to be expected that you will believe my declarations. And from this we may learn: *...
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...
HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME. Moses recorded various prophecies that were fulfilled in Christ, and all the types, shadows and symbols pointed to him. Had they believed Moses they o...
How can you believe when you are out for the glory that you get from each other, and when you do not search for the glory which comes from the only God? Do not think that it is I who will accuse you t...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
IF. App-118. WRITINGS. Greek. Plural of gramma. letters, used of _written characters,_ or of. _document._ For the former, see Luke 23:38; 2 Corinthians 3:7. or the _letter_ of Scripture contrasted wit...
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...
_Do not appeal to Moses; his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is cut away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
_if ye believe not_ The emphatic words are -his" and -My." Most readers erroneously emphasize -writings" and -words." The comparison is between Moses and Christ. It was a simple matter of fact that Mo...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
45–47. _Do not appeal to Moses: his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is out away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
ἘΚΕΊΝΟΥ … ἘΜΟΙ͂Σ. These are the emphatic words, not γράμμασιν and ῥήμασιν. The comparison is between Moses and Christ; the contrast between writings and words is no part of the argument. It was a mere...
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...
ΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act., см._ John 5:44. Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, которое предполагает реальность условия, ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΕΤΕ _fut. ind. act._ Отвергая Христа, они продолжаюттрадиции тех, кто отвергал ветх...
FOR HE WROTE OF ME.— _"Had you believed_ the writings of _Moses,_ which are daily read in your synagogues, _you would have believed me;_ for these writings describe me, as by a variety of striking typ...
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...
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS (see the note at ). HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS? - a remarkable contrast, not absolutely pu...
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...
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...
The emphasis of the contrast here is not between “writings” and “words,” but between “his” and “My.” It is a repetition of the thought of the previous verse, with an advance in time. They had not beli...
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...
The converse is true, and true with an _a fortiori_ conveyed by the contrast between γράμμασιν and ῥήμασι. If the writings you have had before you for your study all your life, and which you have hear...
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...
“ _Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you_, _Moses, on whom ye have set your hope._ 46. _For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me._ 47....
VER. 47. On the other hand, unbelief towards Moses carries naturally in its train the rejection of Jesus. The essential antithesis is not that of the substantives, _writings_ and _words_, but that of...
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...
REFLECTIONS Blessed Mediator! do thou still continue by thy Holy Spirit, to visit the Bethesdas of Ordinances, among thy people; and as in the instance of this poor man, the longest and most invetera...
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...
47._But if you do not believe his writings. _Christ appears here to claim less authority for himself than for Moses; and yet we know that _heaven and earth have been shaken by the voice _of the Gospel...
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 IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS,.... They believed them to be his writings, and that they were the word of God, and yet did not believe the things contained in them, respecting Christ; or did not s...
The authority of the Scriptures:...
BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS, HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS? A most diligent perusal, a ceaseless searching of Scriptures is recommended by Jesus. The Scriptures, as the Jews had them in those d...
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...
45-47 Many trust in some form of doctrines or some parties, who no more enter into the real meaning of those doctrines, or the views of the persons whose names they bear, than the Jews did into those...
But if you believe not his writings, who so plainly wrote of me, and whose writings you own, and have so great a veneration for, how can I expect that you should believe the words of one whom you so v...
John 5:47 But G1161 if G1487 not G3756 believe G4100 (G5719) his G1565 writings G1121 how G4459 believe...
“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father, there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do n...
John 5:47. BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS, HOW WILL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS? if however they did not truly believe the written word, which was constantly in their hands, which was the object of so muc...
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...
HIS WRITINGS (τοις εκεινου γραμμασιν). Dative case with πιστυετε. See Luke 16:31 for a like argument. The authority of Moses was the greatest of all for Jews. There is a contrast also betweenWRITIN...
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...
MOSES IS THE ONE WHO WILL ACCUSE YOU. They thought they believed Moses, but they didn't! If they disbelieve Moses, whom they honored, how could they believe Christ whom they did not honor? In rejectin...
_Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father:__ THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES, IN WHOM YE TRUST__._ The day of judgment is likened to a trial, and we learn that with every verdict...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
_But if_, &c. This is an argument _ad hominem_. For the Jews preferred Moses to Christ. Wherefore He rightly reasons against them thus: "If ye do not believe the writings of Moses (of whom ye make the...
_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...
Luke 16:29; Luke 16:31...
Writings [γ ρ α μ μ α σ ι ν]. It is important to understand the precise sense of this word, because it goes to determine whether Jesus intended an antithesis between Moses ' writings and His own words...