This he spake not of himself.
He thought he spoke it of himself, but unwittingly he uttered. prophecy. The high priest represented the divine headship of the Jewish nation and through him, of old, an inspired decision was given on questions of doubt. So Caiaphas by virtue of his office utters. prophecy, and like Balaam, while wickedly counseling the death of Christ, interprets the results of his death truly.
JOHN 11:51 tou/ evniautou/ evkei,nou Through carelessness the scribes of î66 and D omit evkei,nou, doubtless because of confusion arising from the ending of the previous word. The whole expression “o...
Verse 51. _THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF_] Wicked and worthless as he was, God so guided his tongue that, contrary to his intention, he pronounced a prophecy of the death of Jesus Christ. I have alre...
NOT OF HIMSELF - Though he uttered what proved to be a true prophecy, yet it was accomplished in a way which he did not intend He had a wicked design. He was plotting murder and crime. Yet, wicked as...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Sickness of Lazarus Announced. (John 11:1 .)_ 2. The Delayed Departure and the Death of Lazarus. (John 11:5 .) 3. The Arrival at Bethany. (John 11:17 .) 4. Weeping with Them Tha...
THE RESULTS OF THE MIRACLE. The majority of the Jews who came to comfort the sisters were convinced, but some remained hostile, and gave information to the Pharisees. The chief priests, _i.e._ the Sad...
The chief priests and Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrin: "What are we going to do?" they said, "because this man does many signs. If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him, and the Roma...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
PROPHESIED. The Jews regarded any _ex cathedra_ utterance of the High Priest as inspired. Here Caiaphas was used by God, as Salaam was (Numbers 22:38). See Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27;...
_not of himself_ Like Saul, Caiaphas is a prophet in spite of himself. _being high priest_ None but a Jew would be likely to know of the old Jewish belief that the high-priest by means of the Urim and...
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...
ἘΠΡΟΦΉΤΕΥΣΕΝ for προεφήτευσεν (correction to usual form). In N.T. the better MSS. place the augment before the preposition (Matthew 7:22; Matthew 11:13; Matthew 15:7;...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE SIGN...
Ver 47. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles. 48. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans sh...
_THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS -- JOHN 11:45-57:_ The miracle caused many to believe in Jesus. Others went and told the Pharisees. The chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together to discuss w...
ΆΦ' ΈΑΥΤΟΎ не от себя, т. е. намеренно. ΈΠΡΟΦΉΤΕΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΩ (G4395) пророчествовать. О непреднамеренном пророчестве среди рабби _см._ Hoskyns; SB, 2:546. ΌΤ (G3754) передает сод...
DISCOURSE: 1670 THE PROPHETIC COUNSEL OF CAIAPHAS John 11:51. _This spake he not of himself: but being high-priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; and not for that nat...
AND—CAIAPHAS, BEING THE HIGH-PRIEST THAT SAME YEAR, SAID, &C.— It is well known, that the high-priesthood among the Jews was not annual; but the manyrevolutions about this period might justify thepres...
POLITICS AND MURDER _Text 11:47-57_ 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs. 48 If we _let_ him thus alone, all me...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:45-57 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— In the closing section of John 11 we are shown the effects of the a...
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; AND (OR, 'NOW') THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF: BUT BEING HIGH PRIEST THAT YEAR...
49 The high priest's prophecy is another clear indication of the overruling and sovereign power of God. His enemies fulfill His will even when they are most opposed to His plans and purpose, as they s...
CHRIST THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE 1-44. The raising of Lazarus. The last and greatest of the seven 'signs' recorded in this Gospel is related with such photographic minuteness of detail, that it is...
A MEETING OF THE SANHEDRIN AGAINST JESUS. As in the synoptics, the chief priests, i.e. the Sadducees, take a more prominent part than the Pharisees in compassing the death of Jesus. Similarly in the A...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 LAZARUS DIES 11:1-16 V1-2 A man called Lazarus was ill. He lived in Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. (M...
AND THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF. — There is a moral beauty in the Words, in spite of the diabolical intent with which they are uttered; and St. John adds the explanation that they had an origin highe...
CHAPTER 24 JESUS THE SCAPEGOAT. “Many therefore of the Jews, which came to Mary and beheld that which He did, believed on Him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things wh...
_The consequences of the miracle_....
Τοῦτο δὲ ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ οὐκ εἶπεν … προεφήτευσεν. ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ, “at his own instigation,” is contrasted with “at the instigation of God” implied in ἐπροφήτευσεν [Kypke gives interesting examples of the use...
THE INNOCENT FOR THE GUILTY John 11:45-57 The friends of the family who had come to lament with them, were disposed toward Jesus and believed; but the mere spectators hastened with the news, to infla...
Here we have the account of the last sign wrought by Jesus as recorded by John, namely, the raising of Lazarus. Very beautiful in this connection is the depiction of the sorrow of the sisters, and our...
(8) And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; (8) Christ sometimes turns the tongues, even of the wicked, so that even in...
The same words have an impious and sacrilegious sense in the intention of the high priest, the enemy of Jesus Christ: and a divine and prophetic sense, in the intention of the Holy Ghost. (Bible de Ve...
CONDEMNATORY VERDICT OF THE SANHEDRIN John 11:47-54. “ _Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin_, _and continued to say_, _What shall we do_? _because this man is performing many m...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 45-53. 1. The result of the miracle was the production of the desired faith, not only in the sisters and the disciples, but also in many of the Jews who h...
“ _Now he did not say this of himself; but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation_, 52 _and not for the nation only, but also that he might gather in one bo...
FIRST SECTION: 11:1-57. THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS. No scene in this gospel is presented in so detailed and dramatic a manner. There is none from which appears more distinctly the character of Jesus...
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? For this man doeth many miracles. (48) If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall co...
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...
51._Now he spoke this, not of himself. _When the Evangelist says that Caiaphas _did not speak this of himself_, he does not mean that Caiaphas — like one who was mad, or out of his senses — uttered wh...
We come now to the testimony which the Father renders to Jesus in answer to His rejection. In this chapter the power of resurrection and of life in His own Person are presented to faith. [40] But here...
AND THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF,.... Not of his own devising and dictating, but by the Spirit of God; as a wicked man sometimes may, and as Balaam did; the Spirit of God dictated the words unto him,...
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; Ver. 51. _This he spake, not of himself_] God spake through him, as through a t...
John 11:51. "And this spake he not of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation." By this it appears that things are ordered by God to be acted and...
_One of them, named Caiaphas_, &c. While some of the council seemed apprehensive of the danger of attempting any thing against Jesus, and, as is probable from John 12:42, urged the unlawfulness of wha...
HE PROPHESIED; though the above appears to have been his meaning, yet the Holy Spirit, through his words, expressed the momentous truth, that it was expedient that Jesus Christ, as the Saviour of lost...
THE COUNCIL OF THE JEWS CONCERNING CHRIST'S REMOVAL. The prophecy of Caiaphas:...
AND THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF, BUT, BEING HIGH PRIEST THAT YEAR, HE PROPHESIED THAT JESUS SHOULD DIE FOR THAT NATION,...
THE DEATH OF LAZARUS (vs.1-27) The raising of Lazarus in this chapter is a striking witness to the fact that the plotting of the Jews to kill the Lord Jesus was vanity; for He Himself is superior to...
47-53 There can hardly be a more clear discovery of the madness that is in man's heart, and of its desperate enmity against God, than what is here recorded. Words of prophecy in the mouth, are not cl...
So far as this was a prophecy, HE SPAKE NOT OF HIMSELF: take the words of Caiaphas in the sense that he spake them, they were such as might well enough come out of such a wretched mouth, speaking out...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments And He who knew what manner of man Judas was, is betrayed by Judas. And He, who formerly was honoured by him as God, is contemned by Caiaphas.[289] Con...
John 11:51 Now G1161 this G5124 not G3756 say G2036 (G5627) on G575 own G1438 but G235 being...
‘But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. Nor do you take account of the fact that it is expedient for you that one man should die for...
John 11:51-52. BUT THIS SPAKE HE NOT OF HIMSELF: BUT BEING HIGH PRIEST OF THAT YEAR, HE PROPHESIED THAT JESUS WAS ABOUT TO DIE FOR THE NATION, AND NOT FOR THE NATION ONLY, BUT THAT HE MIGHT ALSO GATHE...
NOT OF HIMSELF (αφ' εαυτου ουκ). Not wholly of himself, John means. There was more in what Caiaphas said than he understood. His language is repeated in John 18:14.PROPHESIED (επροφητευσεν). Aori...
John 11 In selecting this word we are struck with the frequency of its occurrence in this chapter. There is: I. The "If" of wisdom. Jesus answered "If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not." The...
Lazarus had been publicly raised from the dead. A great number of persons saw the miracle, and there was never any question about its having been wrought. John 11:45. _Then many of the Jews which cam...
CONTENTS: Raising of Lazarus. Enmity of the Pharisees against Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Pharisees, Thomas, Caiaphas. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ is the resurrection an...
John 11:2. _It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment._ The allusion to this anointing is obscure. It could not be to the similar occurrence in Luke 7., for that was a woman of the city;...
HE DID NOT SAY THIS OF HIS OWN ACCORD. God was speaking through him, even though he did not know it. [The Expositor's Greek Testament says: "In the irony of events he unconsciously used his high-pries...
_Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council_ THE SANHEDRIM I. The NAME συνέδριον. Sanhedrin is more accurate than Sanhedrim, though this is more frequently used, and means a sittin...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 11:50 THAT ONE MAN SHOULD DIE FOR THE PEOPLE invokes the memory of the Jewish martyrs who died fighting Rome in the time of the Maccabees (_2 Macc._ John 7
"VER. 44. _And he that was dead came forth_, &c. The power of the voice of Christ is made manifest, which instantly raised up the dead man, so that the things spoken might be done. _Grave-clothes_, bi...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 11:46. BUT SOME OF THEM, ETC.—It is possible to misjudge their motives; but in view of John 19:22 and John 10:31 their action can hardly be viewed as friendly....
EXPOSITION JOHN 11:1 7. _Christ the Antagonist of death—a victory of love and power_._ _The narrative of this chapter is a further advance in the proof that the unbelief of the Jews was aggravated b...
The gospel according to John, chapter 11. Now we remember that John is carefully picking out certain incidents in the life of Jesus by which he might prove that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of the l...
1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Samuel 23:9;...