Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 10:40
To the desert place where John baptized, and gave so honourable a testimony of him.
To the desert place where John baptized, and gave so honourable a testimony of him.
Verse John 10:40. _BEYOND JORDAN_] Rather, _to the side of Jordan_, not _beyond_ it. John 6:22, and Matthew 19:1. _WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED_] That is, at _Bethabara_: see...
WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED - At Bethabara, or Bethany, John 1:28....
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
WENT BEYOND JORDAN.. WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED. For the time the Lord retired before the threatening storm. His "hour had not yet come," and would not until the Passover, three months in the futur...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
And he went away again to the other side of Jordan, to the place where John first used to baptize; and he stayed there. And many came to him, and they kept saying: "John did no sign; but everything Jo...
WENT, away, &c. This was in December, and He remained away till April, visiting Bethany (John 11:1) in the interval, and spending the latter part of the time at the city Ephraim (John 11:54). WHERE,...
"The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis -where John at first baptized" … -John did no miracle: but all...
_again beyond Jordan_ Referring back to John 1:28. The hostility of the hierarchy being invincible and becoming more and more dangerous Jesus retires into Peraea for quiet and safety before His Passio...
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...
40–42. “The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis ‘where John at first baptized’ … ‘John did no miracle: b...
ΠΆΛΙΝ Π. Τ. Ἰ. Referring back to John 1:28. The hostility of the hierarchy being invincible and becoming more and more dangerous, Jesus retires into Peraea for quiet and safety before His Passion. Thi...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
VER 39. THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM: BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND, 40. AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE. 41. AND MANY R...
_PEOPLE PUT THEIR FAITH IN JESUS -- JOHN 10:39-42:_ Again the Jewish leaders wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped. Just how Jesus avoided capture we are not told. Jesus crossed the Jordan to the pla...
ΙΊΠΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) уходить, ΠΈΡΑΝ (G4008) с _gen._ другая сторона, ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) крестить. _Praes. part._ указывает на действие, одновреме...
AND WENT—INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN, &C.— _To Beth-arbara,_ Ch. John 1:28. See also the latter part of the note on Luke 3:3. Our Lord seems to have remained in the country of Peroea till he came into J...
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN, INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED. (See the note at...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
The place was Bethany beyond Jordan, John 1:28....
THE PERÆAN MINISTRY. These vv. cover a period of about three months, which is generally spoken of as the Peræan ministry (see Matthew 19:1; Mark 10:1, and cp. Luke 9:51). Its chief incidents were the...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN. — Comp. Note on John 1:28. In Matthew 19:1 we have the fuller expression, “the coasts of Judæa beyond Jordan,” referring to the same locality. The whole of Judæa pro...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
JESUS AT BETHANY, PEREA John 10:40-42. “ _And again He went away beyond Jordan_, _into the place where John was first baptizing_, _and there abode. Many came to Him_, _and continued to say_, _That Joh...
“ _And he went away again beyond the Jordan, into the place where John had baptized at the beginning;and he abode there._ 41. _And many came to him, and they said: John did no miracle; but all that Jo...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
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...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
40._He went away beyond Jordan. _Christ passed _beyond Jordan, _that he might not have to fight continually without any advantage. He has therefore taught us, by his example, that we ought to avail ou...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN,.... Where he had been before; and whither he went; not merely for the security of his person, much less to indulge himself in ease, but to preach the Gospel, work mi...
And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. Ver. 40. _And went again beyond Jordan_] The farther from Jerusalem the safer. Jerusalem was then as...
_And_, presently departing from Jerusalem, _he went again beyond Jordan_ Into Perea, a country for the most part desert and rocky; _the place where John at first baptized_ Called Bethabara, John 1:28;...
Jesus leaves Jerusalem:...
AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE....
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to d...
Christ's time was not yet come when he should be betrayed and crucified; it was yet three months and more to it; he saw the Jews at Jerusalem were in such a rage and fury, that there was no staying in...
John 10:40 And G2532 away G565 (G5627) again G3825 beyond G4008 Jordan G2446 to G1519 place G5117 where...
‘And he went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John was at first baptising, and there he abode. And many came to him, and they said, “John, indeed, did no sign, but all things whatever Jo...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
John 10:40. AND HE WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN UNTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN WAS AT FIRST BAPTIZING; AND THERE HE ABODE. The place in which John _at first_ baptized was that mentioned in chap. John 1:28...
AGAIN (παλιν). Referring to John 1:28 (Bethany beyond Jordan). Παλιν does not mean that the other visit was a recent one.AT THE FIRST (το πρωτον). Adverbial accusative (extent of time). Same idiom...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
JESUS WENT BACK AGAIN. See John 1:28. Jesus had spent nearly three months in Jerusalem in a stormy ministry. Twice they attempted to "mob" him (John 8:59; John 10:31). Twice they attempted to arrest h...
_Therefore they sought again to take Him_ I. MORAL INCORRIGIBILITY. What was the result of Christ’s appeal to His works and to their law? Of His noble life and strong logic? Were their prejudices bro...
VER. 32. _Jesus answered_, &c. He replied not to the words, for none had been spoken, but to the crafty intention of the Jews. He answered, _i.e._, He asked them for what cause do ye wish to stone Me?...
_And went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized._ In Bethabara, or Bethania, where Christ was baptized by him. He afterwards baptized in Ænon (see Joh 3:23), frequently...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
John 1:28; John 11:54; John 3:26; John 7:1...
Beyond Jordan (peran tou Iordanou). Into the region called Peroea, from peran, beyond. It was on the east side of the river, and was the ancient possession of Gad and Reuben. It corresponds, in an enl...