Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 5:37
He hath testified of me — Namely at my baptism. I speak not of my supposed father Joseph. Ye are utter strangers to him of whom I speak.
He hath testified of me — Namely at my baptism. I speak not of my supposed father Joseph. Ye are utter strangers to him of whom I speak.
Verse 37. _THE FATHER HIMSELF - HATH BORNE WITNESS_] That is, by his prophets. _YE HAVE NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE_] I make these words, with Bp. Pearce, a parenthesis: the sense is-"Not that my Father...
THE FATHER HIMSELF ...HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME - This God had done, * By the miracles which Jesus had performed, and of which he was conversing. * At the baptism of Jesus, where he said, “This is...
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...
WITNESS. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. By...
AND THE FATHER HIMSELF... HATH BORNE WITNESS. God hath borne witness in the prophecies that were so wonderfully fulfilled in Christ, he also bore witness in the power he gave to Christ, and he bore w...
And the Father who sent me has home witness about me. You have never heard his voice, nor have you ever seen his form. You do not have his word dwelling in you, because you do not believe in the One w...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
HATH SENT. sent (at. definite time). HATH BORNE. And still bears. NEITHER... NOR. Greek. _oute... oute._ SEEN. Greek. _horao._ App-133. SHAPE. form. Greek. _eidos._ Compare Luke 3:22; Luke 9:39....
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 Father's testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John's writings. A number of simple sentences follow one...
37–40. The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John’s writings. A number of simple sentences fol...
ἘΚΕΙ͂ΝΟΣ (אBL) for αὐτός, which was first inserted along with ἐκεῖνος (D), and then drove it out (A). 37. Ὁ ΠΈΜΨΑΣ. See on John 1:33 : ἐκεῖνος, see on John 1:18; John 3:32. Note the change from aorist...
36–40. _The Father’s testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33. You sent to John, and he b...
_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...
ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ John 5:23. ΜΕΜΑΡΤΎΡΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать. Терминативный perf. подчеркивает длительный эффект свидетельства Отца. Отец представляет...
YE HAVE NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY TIME, &C.— "Nor have you any reason to dispute the testimony which the Father hath thus given me, though _you have never heard his voice, nor seen his form;_ as...
THE FATHER'S WITNESS _Text 5:36-38_ 36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness...
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...
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. AND THE FATHER HIMSELF HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME - not referri...
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...
5:37 shape, (e-27) As 'form,' 'fashion;' Luke 3:22 ; Luke 9:29 ....
The witness of the Father is given (1) in the OT. Scriptures, (2) in the response of all that is good in the heart of man to the teaching of Christ. The divine element in man, which the Father planted...
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...
HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. — The marginal reference interprets this testimony of the Father by the voices from heaven spoken at the Baptism and on the Mount of Transfiguration Both are indeed illustrat...
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...
But over and above the evidence of the works καὶ ὁ πέμψας με πατήρ, αὐτὸς μεμαρτύρηκε, “And the Father who sent me has Himself also testified”. Where and how this testimony of the Father's separate fr...
JESUS' WORKS HIS SUFFICIENT WITNESS John 5:30-38 The one desire and purpose of our Lord was to do God's will. We cannot penetrate the mystery of His ineffable being, but clearly, so far as His human...
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.”...
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...
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 TESTIMONY OF THE FATHER, IN SUPPORT OF THAT WHICH THE SON RENDERS TO HIMSELF: JOHN 5:31-40. Jesus had just ascribed to Himself marvelous works. Such declarations might provoke an objection amo...
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....
VER. 37. “ _And the Father who sent me, himself hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form._ ” It is clear, whatever _Olshausen, Baur_ and others may say,...
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...
37._And the Father who hath sent me. _To limit this statement, as some have done, (108) to the voice which was heard at his baptism, (Matthew 3:17,) is a mistake; for he says in the past tense, that t...
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...
AND THE FATHER HIMSELF, WHICH HATH SENT ME,.... Not only the works he gave him to do, and which he did, but he himself in person: HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME; not only in the writings of Moses, and the...
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. Ver. 37. _Hath borne witness of me_] By the voice from heaven, a...
_But I have greater witness than that of John_ The testimony of one who has infinitely greater authority and power than he; _for the works which the Father hath given me to finish_ The miracles which...
THE FATHER HIMSELF-HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME; in addition to the testimony furnished by my works. He seems to refer to the testimony of the Father through the Scriptures, which he immediately afterward...
The witness of the Father:...
AND THE FATHER HIMSELF WHICH HATH SENT ME HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. YE HAVE NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE....
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...
30-38 Our Lord returns to his declaration of the entire agreement between the Father and the Son, and declared himself the Son of God. He had higher testimony than that of John; his works bore witnes...
HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME; not only in my baptism, and at my transfiguration by an audible voice from heaven, but by the voice of his prophets, by whom he spoke to your fathers. YE HAVE NEITHER HEARD H...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V This, says he, is what is spoken: "We have heard his voice, no doubt, but we have not seen his shape."[80]...
John 5:37 And G2532 Father G3962 Himself G846 sent G3992 (G5660) Me G3165 testified G3140 (G5758) of...
“You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think...
“And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me.” Furthermore the Father had Himself borne witness to Jesus. He had done it through the voice at His baptism (Mark 1:11). He had done it thr...
WITNESSES TO THE GENUINENESS OF HIS AUTHORITY (JOHN 5:31). Jesus now goes on to describe the witnesses which support Him: · He is the One to Whom the Father has borne witness (John 5:37) · His very...
John 5:37. AND THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME, HE HATH HOME WITNESS CONCERNING ME. As if Jesus said: And thus, in the abiding gift of the ‘works,' it is the Father that sent me that hath borne witness of me...
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...
HE HATH BORNE WITNESS (εκεινος μεμαρτυρηκεν). Εκεινος (that one; cf. John 5:35; John 5:38), not αυτος. Perfect active indicative of μαρτυρεω, the direct witness of the Father, besides the indirect w...
SEEN (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:18). _...
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...
EVEN GREATER THAN. The miracles which Jesus did through the Father's power [and his other works]; the Father's voice at his baptism; the Father's testimony through the prophets. YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD H...
_If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true._ There is another that beareth witness of Me THE WITNESSES OF THE SON I. A GREAT WITNESS, His forerunner. The Baptist as a witness for Christ wa...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:37 THE FATHER... HAS HIMSELF BORNE WITNESS refers to the whole of God the Father’s witness. This includes all of Jesus’ miracles and teaching as directed by the Father (John
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
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....
VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
_The Father_, &c.... _hath borne witness_, as at My baptism. Again, _He hath borne witness concerning Me_, through the Scriptures by Moses and the prophets. Observe, Christ in this place, besides 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...
1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:20; 1 Timothy 1:17;...
Himself [α υ τ ο ς]. The best texts substitute ejkeinov, he; reading, "the Father which sent me, He hath born witness." So Rev. Voice - shape. Not referring to the descent of the dove and the voice f...
Can God’s voice be heard? PROBLEM: Jesus declared to the Jews, “You have neither heard His [God’s] voice at any time, nor seen His form.” Yet the voice of God was heard many times in the OT (cf. 1 Sam...
Here our blessed Saviour produces again the testimony of his Father, that he was the true and promised Messias: this was given him both at his baptism and his transfiguration: when God the Father owne...