Lifted up from the earth — This is a Hebraism which signifies dying. Death in general is all that is usually imported. But our Lord made use of this phrase, rather than others that were equivalent, because it so well suited the particular manner of his death. I will draw all men — Gentiles as well as Jews. And those who follow my drawings, Satan shall not be able to keep.
JOHN 12:32 pa,ntaj e`lku,sw {B} Since the reading pa,nta, supported by î66 a* D it vg syrs, p, pal copsa, bo, ach2 goth eth geo1 _al,_ is ambiguous (“everyone,” “all things,” “all”), it i...
Verse 32. _I - WILL DRAW ALL_ MEN _UNTO ME._] After I shall have died and risen again, by the preaching of my word and the influence of my _Spirit_, I shall attract and illuminate both Jews and Genti...
BE LIFTED UP - See John 3:14; John 8:28. WILL DRAW - John 6:44. The same word is used in both places. ALL MEN - I will incline all kind
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
THE REQUEST OF THE GREEKS. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain His a...
IF. BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH,. WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME. Lifted up, _first,_ to the cross; _second,_ from the grave; _third,_ to heaven and the eternal throne. The crucified, risen and exalted Sa...
"Now, my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, rescue me from this hour.' But it was for this reason that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." A voice came from heaven: "I have...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
LIFTED UP. Greek _hupsoe._ Occurs twenty times. Always in John refers to the cross; see John 12:34; John 3:14; John 3:14, and John 8:28. In fourteen other passages ...
The Judgment of Men Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the hierarchy, Christ's triumph and the Pharisees" discomfiture,...
_And I_ -I" is very emphatic in opposition to -the ruler of this world." The glorified Christ will rule men's hearts in place of the devil. _be lifted up_ Raised up to heaven by means of the Cross: we...
ΚἈΓῺ ἘᾺΝ ὙΨΩΘΩ͂. Ἐγώ in emphatic opposition to ὁ ἄρχων τ. κ. τ. The glorified Christ, raised to heaven by means of the Cross, will rule men’s hearts in the place of the devil. We need not, as in John...
THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES AND THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
THE JUDGMENT OF MEN Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the priests, Christ’s triumph and the Pharisees’ discomfiture, t...
27. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I to this hour. 28. Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I...
_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
ΎΨΩΘΏ _aor. pass. conj. от_ ΎΨΌΩ (G5312) ВОЗНОСИТЬ. _Conj._ С ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как возможное. Здесь явно присутствует ссылка на грядущее распятие и после...
DISCOURSE: 1674 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S DEATH John 12:31; John 12:32. _Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will...
NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD:— The subject of our Lord's address to the Father, and the answer which he received, naturally led him to meditate on the happy effects of his coming into the world;...
THE MAGNETIC CROSS _Text 12:27-36_ 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There c...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 43 John 12:20-36 The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The end of our Lord’s public ministry had almost been reach...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. AND I [ kagoo (G2504 )], IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME. The "I" here is emphatic: I, in contrast wi...
7 While facing the terrible ordeal of death our Lord found no fellowship with His disciples in the sorrows before Him. Like Peter, they could not entertain such a thought. But it seems that Mary alone...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP (viz. upon the cross) .. WILL (after My Resurrection and Ascension) DRAW ALL _men_ UNTO ME (RV 'myself')] St. John regards the crucifixion of Jesus as a symbol. His elevation...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH. — The pronoun is strongly emphatic. “And _I_,” in opposition to the prince of this world; the conqueror in opposition to the vanquished foe. The conditional fo...
IV. _ THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF THE CROSS._ "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. There came...
ὑψωθῶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς is explained as indicating or hinting, σημαίνων, “by what death He was to die,” _i.e._, that He was to be raised on the cross. _Cf._ John 3:14. It was the cross which was to become Hi...
_The Greeks inquire for Jesus_....
BELIEF MAY BECOME IMPOSSIBLE John 12:30-41 The question of the Greeks led our Lord's thoughts to His death. He saw, too, the baptism of suffering through which His followers must pass. From all this...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
And I, if I be (e) lifted up from the earth, will draw (f) all [men] unto me. (e) Christ used a word which has a double meaning, for it signifies either to lift up or to get out of the way: for he in...
_And I, if I be lifted up from the earth: that is, on the cross. See the same expression, John iii. 14. and viii. 28. --- I will draw all things, all nations, to myself by faith. (Witham)_...
THE GREEKS COME TO SEE JESUS John 12:20-36. _“And there were certain Greeks of those having come up that they may worship during the festival; then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galil...
“ _Jesus answered and said: Not for my sake has this voice made itself heard, but for your sakes._ 31. _Now is the judgment of this world;now shall the prince of this world be cast out._ 32. _And I, w...
III. THE LAST SCENE IN THE TEMPLE: JOHN 12:20-36. Of all the events which occurred between Palm-day and Thursday evening, the evening before the Passion, John mentions but one, which is omitted by th...
SECOND SECTION: 12:1-36. THE LAST DAYS OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. This section includes three parts: 1. The supper of Jesus at Bethany: John 12:1 to John 11:2. His entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12 to...
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. (32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me, (33) This he said, signifying what death he...
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...
_THE ATTRACTIVE POWER OF CHRIST_ ‘I, If I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself.’ John 12:32 (R.V.) Nothing had ever happened to suggest to this Galilæan carpenter the strange...
32._If I be lifted up_. Next follows the method by which _the judgment _shall be conducted; namely, Christ, being _lifted up _on the cross, shall gather all men to himself, in order that he may raise...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH,.... The death of Christ is here signified by his being "lifted up from the earth", in allusion to the lifting up of the brazen serpent on the pole; and shows,...
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all _men_ unto me. Ver. 32. _And if I be lifted up, &c._] Pope Urban VI said that these words, "Give unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's," wer...
_Now is the judgment of this world_ Which I am going to conquer and condemn, that by my death my followers may both be taught and enabled to triumph over it, and those may be convinced of sin that bel...
LIFTED UP; on the cross, as a sacrifice for the sins of men. DRAW ALL MEN; chap John 3:14-15; John 6:44....
The manner of Christ's glorification:...
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME....
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
27-33 The sin of our souls was the troubled of Christ's soul, when he undertook to redeem and save us, and to make his soul an offering for our sin. Christ was willing to suffer, yet prayed to be sav...
Ver. 32,33. However this term of lifting up Christ is taken in some other scriptures, it is by the evangelist himself in this text expounded concerning his death, so as there is no room for any other...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross,[59] Epistle...
John 12:32 I G2504 if G1437 up G5312 (G5686) from G1537 earth G1093 draw G1670 (G5692) all...
‘ “Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out, and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself”. (He said this to show by what death he wou...
John 12:32-33. AND I, IF I BE LIFTED ON HIGH OUT OF THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF. BUT THIS HE SAID, SIGNIFYING BY WHAT MANNER OF DEATH HE SHOULD DIE. ‘Myself' is used in emphatic contrast...
Jesus has been doomed to death (John 11:53; John 11:57), and the hour is at hand when He shall be seized, and the sentence executed. But the malice of man cannot interfere with the purposes of God. In...
AND I, IF I BE LIFTED FROM THE EARTH (καγω αν υψωθω εκ της γης). Note proleptic position of εγω (I). Condition of third class (undetermined with prospect) with αν (= εαν here) with first aorist pass...
John 12:32 The Atonement I. Christ came to remit _sin_the debt incurred by man to his God. Punishment, as St. Paul speaks of it, is not an arbitrary penalty for sin, having no direct reference to the...
John 12:32 I. In these words our Lord foretells the gathering out and knitting "together of His mystical body, which is the Church. From the time of His ascension into heaven, and the shedding abroad...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
John 12:12. On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they beard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Bl...
Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead; and this miracle made a great sensation among the people. They came to meet Jesus, waving palm branches before him, and all Jerusalem was on a stir. John 12:19....
Our Lord had gained a sudden popularity through raising Lazarus from the dead, and the people had attended him with great enthusiasm as he rode through the streets of Jerusalem. For the time, things l...
John 12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would...
Our Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead, and this miracle had excited great attention in Jerusalem. In consequence of this, the people had led him in triumph through the streets, and everywhere ther...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
WHEN I AM LIFTED UP. Lifted up: _first,_ to the Cross; second, from the grave; _third,_ to heaven and the Throne. See notes on John 6:37; 1 Corinthians 1:23-25....
_Now is the Judgment of this world_ THE WORLD’S HOUR OF DEEPEST REVOLUTION It was the signal I. OF ITS JUDGMENT. To judge is to verify the moral condition. The judgment of the world is based upon th...
_And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus_ THE INCIDENT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like the...
MAGNETS And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself. John 12:32. Most of you have seen a magnet. I remember that when I was at school, a good many of the boys had small st...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:32 LIFTED UP. See John 3:14 and note; 8:28; also...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
1-50 CHAPTER 12 Ver. 1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover_, &c. He came from Ephraim, as the Passover was drawing on when He was to die. And He came to Bethany to prepare Himself for it; nay m...
_And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all Things unto Me._ "Exalted by my resurrection and ascension," says S. Chrysostom. But other commentators refer it to the Cross, as S. John himsel...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:20. Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, _i.e._ t...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
1 John 2:2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Timothy 2:6; 2 Samuel 18:9;...
Be lifted up [υ ψ ω θ ω]. See on 3 14. The primary reference is to the cross, but there is included a reference to the resurrection and ascension. Bengel says : "In the very cross there was already so...
THE HOUR IS COME John 12:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and then Andrew...