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Verse 41. _I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR FROM MEN._] I do not stand in need of
you or your testimony. I act neither through self-interest nor vanity.
Your salvation can add nothing to me, nor can your destruct...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR ... - “I do not say these things because I am
desirous of human applause, but to account for the fact that you do
not believe on me. The reason is, that you have not the love of G...
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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...
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This summary suggests that Jesus-' opponents had accused Him of
self-glorification. In answer He traces back their failure to accept
His message to want of that love of God which their study of Script...
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RECEIVE NOT HONOR FROM MEN.
This seems to connect itself with. thought which he detected in their
hearts that he had rebuked them from disappointment....
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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...
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MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
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HONOUR. Greek. _doxa_. approval, here, as in John 5:44. or "praise",
as in John 9:21; John 12:43; 1 Peter 4:11. See p. 1511....
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_Not that I seek glory from men; had I done so, you would have
received Me. Your worldliness prevents you from receiving One whose
motives are not worldly_....
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_I receive not honour_ It is nothing to Me; I have no need of it, and
refuse it: comp. John 5:34. GLORY would perhaps be better than
-honour" both here and in John 5:44, and than -praise" in John 9:24...
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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...
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Ver 41. I receive not honor from men. 42. But I know you, that you
have not the love of God in you. 43. I am come in my Father's name,
and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, hi...
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_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...
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ΔΌΞΑΝ (G1391) _асс. sing._ слава; в _знач._
"одобрение". Если Он Мессия, Которого
они хотели, все последуют за Ним. До 70
г. н.э. было много претендентов на роль
Мессии (Jos., Ant. 20:97-99, 171-72; J...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR FROM MEN, &C.— "Though I speak of your coming
to me, let me remind you that it is not out of an ambition of drawing
multitudes about me, to follow and applaud my teaching; for the...
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THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES
_Text 5:39-47_
39
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have
eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
40
and ye will not come...
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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...
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I receive not honour from men.
I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR, [ doxan (G1391)] - 'applause,' 'glory,'
FROM MEN - contrasting His own end with theirs, which was to obtain
human applause....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR. — The word is better rendered _glory_ here,
and in John 5:44. Jesus continues to dwell, in the remainder of the
discourse (John 5:41), on the true cause of their incredulity. “Ye...
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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...
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Δόξαν παρὰ ἀνθρώπων οὐ λαμβάνω, not
“glory from men I am not receiving,” not quite “glory from men I
do not seek,” but rather, that which is in my judgment glory, I do
not receive from men: not what m...
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WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED
John 5:39-47
Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many
grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to
use them....
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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...
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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.”...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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“ _I receive not my glory from men._ 42. _But I know you, [and I
know] that ye have not the love of God in yourselves._ 43. _I am come
in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come...
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III. THE CONDEMNATION OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 5:41-47.
In John 5:41-44, Jesus unfolds the cause of the moral antipathy which
keeps them away from Him; in John 5:45-47, the terrible consequences
of th...
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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...
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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...
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41._I receive not glory from men. _He proceeds in his reproof; but
that he may not be suspected of pleading his own cause, he begins by
saying that he does not care for _the glory of men_, and that it...
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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...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR FROM MEN. Not but that honour from men was due to
Christ; and it becomes all men to honour him, as they do the Father;
and he does receive honour and glory, and blessing from his...
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I receive not honour from men.
Ver. 41. _I receive not honour from men_] _q.d._ I need you not,
though I complain you come not to me. It is for your sakes that I seek
to you. Christ could be happy, t...
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_I receive not honour from men_ I need it not; I seek it not from you
for my own sake. As if he had said, Though I speak of your coming to
me as necessary in order to your salvation, it is not out of...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOR; it was not his object to obtain human applause,
but to honor God and save men....
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The authority of the Scriptures:...
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I RECEIVE NOT HONOR FROM MEN....
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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...
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39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in
their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of
God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scripture...
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I depend not upon the single testimony of men; or, I seek not, nor
hunt after, the honour of men, nor regard what they think or say of
me....
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John 5:41 not G3756 receive G2983 (G5719) honor G1391 from G3844 men
G444
John 5:34,...
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“I do not receive praise (doxan - ‘praise, glory') from men.”
Jesus now contrasts Himself with the Judaisers. They constantly look
for the praise of men (John 5:44). In contrast He does not seek such...
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John 5:41. GLORY FROM MEN I RECEIVE NOT. The last nine verses have
been an expansion of John 5:31; this verse goes back to the 30 th, in
which Jesus first contrasts His spirit with theirs, His devotio...
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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...
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GLORY FROM MEN
(δοξαν παρα ανθρωπων). Mere honour and praise Jesus
does not expect from men (verse John 5:34). This is not wounded pride,
for ambition is not Christ's motive. He is unlike the Jews ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. They were looking to find eternal life.
Compare Romans 9:30-33. AND THEY THEMSELVES SPEAK ABOUT ME! The
Scriptures gave their witness to Christ, The entire Old Testament
poin...
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_I receive not honour from men._
Lest they should think that in commending Himself and challenging them
He was hunting after vainglory, as false teachers do, Christ obviates
that mistake, and showeth...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear
testimony concerning him (see chart).
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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....
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. _receive not brightness_ (Vulg. _claritatem_), Greek, _δόξαν_,
i.e., _glory_, _from men._ There is an anticipation, "Ye, 0 ye
Scribes, suspect, and object that I preach such great things of
Myself,...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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1 Peter 2:21; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; 2 Peter 1:17; John 5:34; John 6:15;
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I receive not honor from men. The Greek order is : glory from men I
receive not. Compare ver. 34. His glory consists in his loving
fellowship with God. Men who do not love God are not in sympathy with...
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I receive not honour from men — I need it not. I seek it not from
you for my own sake....
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Here observe, 1. How little our Saviour sought the approbation and
vain-glorious estimation of men, I RECEIVE NOT HONOUR FROM MEN. The
same should all his disciples and followers do; rest satisfied in...