This corrects the impression, naturally derived from the Synoptists, that Christ's public ministry did not commence till after the imprisonment of the Baptist. The whole of these first three Chapter s and part of the fourth must be placed before Matthew 4:12, where there are great gaps in the history.
FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON - See Luke 3:20. The mention of this shows that John was not imprisoned until some time after our Lord entered on his ministry. The design of John was to call men...
II. ETERNAL LIFE IMPARTED: What it is and What it Includes Chapter 2:23-17 The second part of this Gospel contains the blessed teachings the Son of God gave concerning eternal life, how it is impart...
THE LAST APPEARANCE OF THE BAPTIST. Convinced that the nation is not ripe for Messianic teaching, Jesus falls back on preparatory work similar to that of John, who was continuing his work at Æ non nea...
FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. This incident occurred just before the seizure of John. The testimony following is the last words recorded of the great forerunner before he was sent to prison...
After these things Jesus and his disciples went to the district of Judaea. He spent some time there with them, and he was baptizing; and John was baptizing at Ainon, near Salem, because there was much...
THE MAN WHO CAME BY NIGHT (John 3:1-6)...
WAS. had been. NOT YET. Greek. _oupo,_ compound of _ou._ PRISON. the prison. Compare Matthew 4:12....
THE BAPTISM AND FINAL TESTIMONY OF JOHN...
24. The Evangelist has not said a word that could imply that the Baptist was in prison. This remark refers to the Synoptists, and guards us against the inference easily drawn from them (Matthew 4:12;...
Ver 22. After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23. And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was m...
_JESUS WAS EXALTED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST -- JOHN 3:22-31:_ John was fully satisfied with the place and the work that God gave him to do. "You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Chris...
ΓΆΡ (G1063) объясняет, почему Иоанн продолжает крестить, ΒΕΒΛΗΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, швырять. Part, в перифр. обороте показывает, что Иоанн еще не был заключен в тюрьму (V...
AFTER THESE THINGS— Some time after the conference with Nicodemus, Jesus and his disciples, leaving Jerusalem, went into the land of Judea, or those parts of Judea which were remote from Jerusalem. As...
JOHN'S WITNESS CONCERNING HIMSELF _Text 3:22-30_ 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was bapt...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 3:22-36 We give first a brief Analysis of the passage which is to occupy our attention. Here we see: "After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the l...
For John was not yet cast into prison. FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. From the first three Evangelists one would naturally conclude that our Lord's public ministry only began after the Baptis...
1 We have found an unholy temple, an unspiritual priesthood, and now we are introduced to an ignorant teacher! Intense application to a single text book for a whole life had not taught him the element...
This v. corrects the impression which the synoptic narrative produces, that John was imprisoned immediately after our Lord's baptism. As a matter of fact, the two ministries overlapped by several mont...
THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impression, n...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS TEACHES NICODEMUS 3:1-21 V1-2 A *Jewish leader called Nicodemus came to speak to Jesus. Nicodemus was a *Pharis...
WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. — This Judæan ministry, then, preceded the Galilean ministry of the earlier Gospels. (See John 4:3, and Note on Matthew 4:12.)...
_The ministry of Jesus in Judaea after He left Jerusalem_. This falls into three parts: (1) a brief account of the movements and success of Jesus and the Baptist which provoked a comparison between th...
οὔπω γὰρ … ὁ Ἰωάννης, “for not yet had John been cast into prison”: a clause inserted for the sake of those who might have gathered from the synoptic narrative that John was cast into prison immediate...
JOHN SHOWS THE GREATNESS OF HUMILITY John 3:22-30 It is expressly stated in John 4:2 that Jesus baptized through His disciples. This controversy arose with a Jew, who was comparing the respective bap...
Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because h...
CHAPTER 9 JESUS PREACHING IN THE COUNTRY John 3:22-26. _“After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the Judean country, and He there tarried with them, and baptized.”_ Our Lord, having beg...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 3:22-36. _“And they came to John, and said to him, Master, He who is with thee beyond Jordan, and to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and al...
III. JESUS IN THE COUNTRY OF JUDEA: 3:22-36. The previous testimonies of John the Baptist were appeals to faith. That which is to follow assumes the character of a threatening protest against the gen...
VER. 24. “ _For John had not yet been cast into prison._ ” This remark of the evangelist is surprising, because there is nothing in what precedes which is adapted to occasion it. The fact of the incar...
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. (23) And John also was baptizing in Enon, near to Salem; because there was much wa...
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...
But there was a man (chapter 3) and that a Pharisee who was not satisfied with this inoperative conviction. His conscience was reached. Seeing Jesus, and hearing His testimony, had produced a sense of...
FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. As he afterwards was by Herod, for the sake of Herodias, because he reproved Herod for taking her to be his wife, when she was wife to his brother Philip; see Ma...
For John was not yet cast into prison. Ver. 24. _Cast into prison_] The primitive bishops were found more frequently in prisons than palaces. Bocardo became a college of Quondams, _a_ as the Marian m...
_After these things_ That is, some time after our Lord's conference with Nicodemus; _came Jesus and his disciples_ From Jerusalem, where they had kept the passover together; _into the land of Judea_ T...
FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. After the conversation with Nicodemus and after the days of the Passover Jesus left Jerusalem, but not Judea. He went out into the rural districts with His disci...
JOHN'S SECOND TESTIMONY OF CHRIST. Christ's ministry and John's baptism:...
NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evident...
22-36 John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. He also knew that Jesus would increase in honour and influence, for of his government and...
For John was yet in the exercise of his public ministry, not cast into prison, as he was soon after....
John 3:24 For G1063 John G2491 had G2258 yet G3768 been G2258 (G5713) thrown G906 (G5772) into...
‘For John had not yet been put in prison.' John had not yet been put into prison. Thus this is before the ministries of Jesus mentioned in the other Gospels. Jesus is quite happy at this stage to be...
JOHN THE BAPTISER DECREASES (JOHN 3:22). At this stage Jesus began His ministry alongside that of John the Baptist in a supporting role. It was not His intention at this stage to supersede him. Indeed...
John 3:24. FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET EAST INTO PRISON. Words in which the Evangelist vindicates the accuracy of his narrative, and corrects a mistake apparently prevailing in the Church when he wrote. The...
This section affords us our last view of the great Forerunner when, at the moment of his disappearance, he utters his highest testimony to Jesus as the true Bridegroom of the Church, alone to be welco...
FOR JOHN HAD NOT YET BEEN CAST INTO PRISON (ουπω γαρ ην βεβλημενος εις την φυλακην Ιωανης). Periphrastic past perfect indicative of βαλλω explaining (γαρ) why John was still baptizing, the reason f...
John 3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea, and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was m...
This is a very wonderful chapter, because, while it teaches the doctrine of regeneration, and the necessity of a great moral and spiritual change, it yet also reveals the doctrine of salvation by fait...
John 3:13. _And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven._ We are in the stairway now between heaven and earth; Christ has came dow...
CONTENTS: Nicodemus and the new birth. The last testimony of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Nicodemus, John the Baptist, Moses, John's disciples. CONCLUSION: Since the natural...
John 3:1. _Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews._ This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Chris...
(JOHN HAD NOT YET BEEN PUT IN PRISON.) John's Gospel shows that the ministry of Jesus was put into effect and was very successful, before the work of John the Baptist terminated. McGarvey thinks this...
_After these things came Jesus and His disciples unto the land of Judaea (see also on _John 3:30_ for the whole paragraph)_ JESUS AND JOHN AND THEIR DISCIPLES I. A HUMBLING EXAMPLE OF THE PETTY JEAL...
1-36 CHAPTER 3 _There was a man_, &c. Nicodemus means in Greek _the conqueror of the people._ Such was this man; who, overcoming the fear of the people, the Pharisees, and the priests, believed in Ch...
_For John had not yet been sent_ (Vulg. _missus,_ Greek _cast_) _into prison._ This implies, says S. Chrysostom, that John baptized up to the time of his being cast into prison. For until his death he...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 3:23. ÆNON NEAR TO SALIM (Αἰνών, from עַין, Arab. عين, a spring).—_Salim_ was long supposed to have been situated about eight miles from Beth-Shean, _i.e._ in the...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an unfriend...
Have we got a message for you tonight from the Word of God! John chapter 3 and 4, oh my, how rich! How blessed! There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews (John 3:1). We k...
Luke 3:19; Luke 3:20; Luke 9:7; Mark 6:17; Matthew 14:3;...
Prison [τ η ν φ υ λ α κ η ν]. See on Acts 5:18; Acts 5:21....