Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 5:38
Ye have not his word — All who believe have the word of the Father (the same with the word of the Son) abiding in them, that is, deeply ingrafted in their hearts.
Ye have not his word — All who believe have the word of the Father (the same with the word of the Son) abiding in them, that is, deeply ingrafted in their hearts.
Verse 38. _YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU_] Though ye believe the Scriptures to be of God, yet ye do not let them take hold of your hearts-his word is in your mouth, but not in your mind. What a...
HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU - His law does not abide in you - that is, you do not regard or obey it. This was the “third” thing that he charged them with. * They had not obeyed the command of God. * T...
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...
YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU. The proof of it was that they did not believe the one whom God had sent, though the word bore continual witness to him....
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)...
ABIDING. See note on John 1:32. HATH SENT. sent....
_And ye have not his word_ -And hence it is that ye have no inner appropriation of the word" seeing that ye have never received it either by hearing or vision. -His word" is not a fresh testimony diff...
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...
_The Father's testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
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...
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...
38. ‘And hence it is that ye have no inner appropriation of the word’—seeing that ye have never received it either by hearing or vision. Ὁ λόγος is not a fresh testimony different from φωνή and εἶδος:...
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
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 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...
ΜΈΝΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать. "Слово, которое пребудет в вас" ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать. Совершенный _aor._, подчеркивающий завершенност...
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 ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. AND YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU - passing now from the Witness-bearer to the testimony borne by the Fath...
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...
HIS WORD] is not here the Scripture, but the Divine Voice speaking through the conscience and spiritual nature of man....
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...
ABIDING IN YOU. — This striking thought of the word taking up its abode in the mind, and forming the mind in which it dwells, meets us only in St. John. (Comp. John 15:7; 1 John 2:14; 1 John 2:24;...
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...
καὶ τὸν λόγον … you have not heard His _voice_ as you have heard mine (John 5:25) and His _word_ which you have heard, and which has been coming to you through all these centuries, you do not admit to...
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...
You do not observe the commandment he gave you. (Deuteronomy xviii. 15. 19.) of listening to the prophet He would send you....
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.”...
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....
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...
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...
“ _And his word ye have not abiding in you, for ye believe not him whom he hath sent._ 39. _Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear...
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...
38._And you have not his word abiding in you. _This is the true way of profiting, when the word of God takes root in us, so that, being impressed on our hearts, it has its fixed abode there. Christ af...
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 YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU,.... Which some understand of Christ himself, the Logos, or word: who, though he was now with them, being made flesh, and dwelling among them, yet would not lon...
And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Ver. 38. _And you have not his word abiding in you_] As an "engrafted word," James 1:21 : ye have heard it, but wit...
_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...
YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD; they did not receive the testimony of God, and they showed this by rejecting that of his Son....
The witness of the Father:...
AND YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU; FOR WHOM HE HATH SENT, HIM YE BELIEVE NOT. The testimony of John was valuable for their sakes only; Jesus did not need the witness of men. He could appeal to t...
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...
Though they had heard the word of the Lord, their forefathers by the prophets, and in that generation by John the Baptist, (the messenger sent before Christ's face), and now by Christ himself, whom th...
John 5:38 But G2532 do G2192 not G3756 have G2192 (G5719) His G846 word G3056 abiding G3306 ...
“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...
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 5:38. AND YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU; BECAUSE WHOM HE SENT, HIM YE BELIEVE NOT. ‘Word' here must not be understood as directly signifying the Scriptures of the Old Testament: it is rathe...
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...
AND (κα). "And yet" as in John 1:10 and John 5:40 below.HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU (τον λογον αυτου εν υμιν μενοντα). But God's word had come to them through the centuries by the prophets. For the ph...
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 5:31 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...
_Ye have not His word abiding_ (Arabic, _made strong_) _in you_, &c. The connection and subsequent argument of these words is obscure, which different writers explain in different ways. 1. You may exp...
_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 2:14; Colossians 3:16; Deuteronomy 6:6; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 5
His word. Emphatic, commencing the sentence. Compare John 17:6 sqq.; 1 John 1:10; 1 John 2:14....