B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
John 2:17
His disciples remembered.
As they beheld his flaming zeal and thought of the wrath that it would bring down upon him, they thought of the words in Psalms 69:9, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."
His disciples remembered.
As they beheld his flaming zeal and thought of the wrath that it would bring down upon him, they thought of the words in Psalms 69:9, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."
Verse John 2:17. _THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE_] See Psalms 59:10. Zeal to promote thy glory, and to keep thy worship pure....
IT WAS WRITTEN ... - This is recorded in Psalms 69:9. Its meaning is, that he was affected with great zeal or concern for the pure worship of God. THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE - “Zeal” is intense ardor in...
CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2:1-22 _ 1. The Marriage in Cana. (John 2:1 .)_ 2. The Temple Cleansed. (John 2:12 .) The second chapter gives the record of the first miracle reported in this Gospel. He manifest...
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. The Passover of the Jews as an author writing for Christians naturally describes it without special significance or bias, was near. Jesus, following the custom of the reli...
THE NEW EXHILARATION (John 2:1-11)...
His disciples remembered that there is a scripture which stands written: "For zeal for your house has consumed me." Then the Jews demanded of him: "What sign do you show us to justify your acting in t...
IT WAS WRITTEN. it is (or standeth) written. Compare John 6:31; John 6:45; John 8:17; John 10:34;...
_remembered_ Then and there. Who could know this but a disciple? Who would think of inventing it? See above on John 2:11. _was written_ Better, IS _written_; in the Greek it is the perf. part. pass. w...
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...
ΚΑΤΑΦΆΓΕΤΑΊ (אABP) has been altered to κατέφαγε in order to bring the quotation into harmony with the LXX. 17. ἘΜΝΉΣΘ. Then and there; contrast John 2:22. Who could know this but a disciple who was p...
THE FIRST CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE...
Ver 14. And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15. And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and...
_JESUS' FIRST PASSOVER DURING HIS PERSONAL MINISTRY -- JOHN 2:12-17:_ Jesus' attendance at this Jewish feast showed His faithfulness and righteousness. His presence also declared the value of worship...
ΈΜΝΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΜΙΜΝΉΣΚΟΜΑΙ (G3403) помнить, ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. Перифр. _part._ ΖΉΛΟΣ &2419) ревность, в сопровождении _obj. gen._ ΤΟΎ ΟΊΚ...
DISCOURSE: 1606 BUYERS AND SELLERS DRIVEN OUT John 2:17. _And his Disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up_. WE are apt to think that we receive no benefit f...
AND HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED, &C.— In the apprehension of the disciples, their Lord exposed himself to great danger by turning out a body of factious and interested men, whom the priests and rulers su...
CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE _Text 2:13-17_ 13 And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 2:12-25 "After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days" (John 2:12). This...
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. AND HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS WRITTEN ( ), THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE HATH EATEN ME UP - a glorio...
1 Cana, in Hebrew, means "acquire". The marriage feast is a sign of the time when the Son acquires the kingdom, and as the bridegroom is elated over the bride, so will He be elated over Israel (Isa_62...
2:17 written, (e-8) Psalms 69:9 ....
THE WEDDING AT CANA. THE TEMPLE CLEANSED 1-11. The marriage at Cana. This miracle is not recorded by the synoptists because it occurred before the beginning of the ministry proper. St. John records it...
THE ZEAL] Cited from Psalms 69:9. This Ps. is elsewhere quoted as Messianic, John 15:25; John 19:28; Acts 1:20;...
FIRST PASSOVER AND FIRST CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. For a full commentary, see on Matthew 21:12. By a striking sign our Lord at the very outset of His ministry brought His claims before the whole nation...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS CHANGES WATER SO THAT IT BECOMES WINE 2:1-12 V1 The next day, there was a wedding in Cana in *Galilee. Jesus’ m...
WAS WRITTEN... HATH EATEN ME UP. — More literally, _is written._.. _shall eat me up._ The verse is full of interest in many ways. It gives us the thought of the disciples at the time (comp. John 2:22)...
CHAPTER 6 THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. “After this He went down to Capernaum, He, and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples: and there they abode not many days. And the Passover of the Jews...
RIGHT AND WRONG USES OF GOD'S HOUSE John 2:12-22 This market was established in the Temple courts, and many evils were associated with it. The animals were sold at exorbitant prices, which made the d...
At Cana our Lord wrought what John describes as the "beginning of His signs." It was a sign of power in the realm of creation, and of it being exercised in answer to faith. It was a sign, moreover, of...
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The (g) zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. (g) "Zeal" in this place is taken for a wrathful indignation and displeasure of the mind, brought about...
PURIFICATION 0F THE TEMPLE John 2:13-25. _“And the Passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ The Passover began April 14th, through all the ages of Israel, celebrating the exodu...
The effect is described in John 2:17-22. We meet here a fact, which will repeat itself at every manifestation of the Lord's glory; a twofold impression is produced, according to the moral predispositi...
VER. 17. “ _His disciples remembered that it was written: The zeal of thy house shall eat me up._ ” This recollection took place immediately; comp. John 2:22, where the opposite fact is expressly poin...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XI. Beginning with John 2:13, the account of the first visit of Jesus to Jerusalem is given. There can be little doubt that the five or six disciples were wit...
SECOND CYCLE: 2:12-4:54. This second cycle is naturally divided into three sections: 1. The ministry of Jesus in _Judea_, John 2:12 to John 3:36; 2. The return through _Samaria: John 4:1-42_; 3. Th...
FIRST SECTION: 2:12-3:36. JESUS IN JUDEA. Here again, as in the preceding story, the course of the narrative is steadily continuous and its historical development accurately graduated. Jesus first app...
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. (13) And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jer...
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...
_‘MY FATHER’S HOUSE’_ ‘And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple.… The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up.’ John 2:15 Though in the actual letter of the t...
17._And his disciples remembered. _It is to no purpose that some people tease themselves with the inquiry how _the disciples remembered _a passage of Scripture, with the meaning of which they were hit...
The third day we find in chapter 2. A marriage takes place in Galilee. Jesus is there; and the water of purification is changed into the wine of joy for the marriage-feast. Afterwards at Jerusalem He...
AND HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS WRITTEN,.... In Psalms 69:9, which Psalm belongs to the Messiah, as is manifest from the citations out of it in the New Testament, and the application of them...
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. Ver. 17. _The zeal of thine house_] Apostates, on the other side, eat up their zeal of God's house. But as...
_And when he had made a scourge of small cords_ Εκσχοινιων, _of rushes_, rather, which he found strewed on the ground. This circumstance, seemingly slight, was inserted to show that the instrument cou...
IT WAS WRITTEN; PSALMS 69:9. HATH EATEN ME UP; I am full of consuming desire for the honor of thy house, and the purity of thy worship. The transactions recorded in the New Testament are in many cases...
AND HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS WRITTEN, THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE HATH EATEN ME UP. Jesus was a circumcised member of the Jewish Church, and He was very strict in observing its rules and laws....
The first purging of the Temple:...
A MARRIAGE ON THE THIRD DAY (vs.1-12) Now we are told of a third day, and a marriage in Cana. This is typical of Israel's new relationship with their Messiah and the receiving of the joy of His mirac...
12-22 The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a market-place of its courts. Those now ma...
The disciples, as well as the rest of the people there present, could not but be astonished at this so strange a thing, to see a single person, and he in no repute but as a private person, to make a w...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews In the Epistle of John: "But he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever, even as He Himself also abideth for ever."[509]...
John 2:17 Then G1161 His G846 disciples G3101 remembered G3415 (G5681) that G3754 was G2076 (G5748) written...
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE (JOHN 2:13). It is difficult to avoid the feeling that this narrative is given here on close proximity to what has gone before because it illustrates the fulfilment of the...
‘His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your House will eat into me'.' The words cited here by John come from Psalms 69:9 and there it is also in a context where insults are being off...
In the passage before us we have the first section of the third great division of our Gospel. Jesus leaves the circle of His disciples, and begins His public work. This is done at Jerusalem, after a f...
John 2:17. HIS DISCIPLES REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS WRITTEN, THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE SHALL EAT ME UP. Clearly (from the contrast with John 2:22) they remembered this scripture _at that time._ The quotatio...
REMEMBERED (εμνησθησαν). First aorist passive indicative of μιμνησκω, to remind, "were reminded." Westcott notes the double effect of this act as is true of Christ's words and deeds all through Joh...
John 2:15 "My Father's House.". I. In this passage we find our Lord, in the first instance, disconnecting, jealously disconnecting, all temporal from spiritual things; endeavouring to do away with th...
John 2:17 I. Zeal is one of the elementary religious qualifications that is, one of those which are essential to the very notion of a religious man. A man cannot be said to be in earnest in religion t...
CONTENTS: The marriage at Cana and the first miracle of Jesus. The passover and the purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: Jesus, mother, disciples. CONCLUSION: Those who expect the favors of Chris...
John 2:1. _The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee,_ when the sun of righteousness shone out with divine glory. Cana of Galilee is here mentioned to distinguish it from Cana near Sidonia...
MY DEVOTION TO YOUR HOUSE, GOD. Quoted from Psalms 69:9....
_The Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem._ CHRIST’S FIRST PASSOVER I. HIS ATTENDANCE AT THE PASSOVER, One of the three great annual festivals which all males were required to...
_The zeal of Thine house hath eaten Me up_ _ I._ ZEAL FOR THE STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSE. 1. It is the duty of the Church to provide convenient places for the public worship of God. Over-building is a...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 2:13 Matthew, Mark, and Luke record a second clearing of the temple, just prior to the crucifixion (see Mark 11:15 and parallels). By clearing the temple, Jesus displays prophetic pa...
CHAPTER 2 _On the third day_, &c. _The third day_, that is, from Christ's departure for Galilee, and the calling of Philip. For this was the last date mentioned by S. John. The following is the sequen...
_His disciples remembered,_ &c. This zeal of Christ was righteous indignation, says Euthymius, or rather ardour to do away with what was repugnant to God's honour, so that He boldly exposed Himself, H...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 2:12. CAPERNAUM.—Cod. א, B, read καφαρ ναούμ, _i.e._ the kaphar or village of Nahum. Two sites especially have been fixed upon as the best representatives of the...
EXPOSITION VERSES 2:1-3:4 _The testimony of signs to the glory of the Word made flesh._ JOHN 2:1 (1) _The first sign, the beginning of signs, Mastery over the old creation. Sign of love and power....
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Psalms 119:139; Psalms 69:9...
It was written [γ ε γ ρ α μ μ ε ν ο ν ε σ τ ι ν]. Literally, it stands written. This form of the phrase, the participle with the substantive verb, is peculiar to John in place of the more common gegra...
THE FATHER'S HOUSE John 2:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The connecting link. The connecting verse between the last study and this one, is John 2:12. In that verse we read that Jesus went to Capernaum, H...
Psalms 69:9....
The disciples upon this occasion called to remembrance the words of David, THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE HATH EATEN ME UP: Psalms 69:9 which was verified in Christ as well as in David. Where observe, 1. The...