Doth our law -Law" is emphatic. -You condemn the multitude for not knowing the law; but are we not forgetting the law in condemning a man unheard?" These learned theologians and lawyers were forgetting such plain and simple texts as Deuteronomy 1:16-17; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:15; involving the most elementary principles of justice.
any man, before it hear him Literally, the man(prosecuted) except it first hear from himself.
Verse John 7:51. _DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN_] τον ανθρωπον, _the man_, i.e. who is _accused_. Perhaps Nicodemus did not refer so much to any thing in the law of Moses, as to what was commonly practi...
DOTH OUR LAW ... - The law required justice to be done, and gave every man the right to claim a fair and impartial trial, Leviticus 19:15; Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 19:15,...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. My Time is not Yet Come. (John 7:1 .)_ 2. Departure from Galilee; Sought by the Jews. (John 7:10 .) 3. In the Temple Teaching. (John 7:14 .) 4. Opposition to Him. ...
THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST. The Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of the ingathering at the end of summer, lasted seven days in early times (Deuteronomy 16:13). An eighth day was added later (Leviticus 2...
DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN BEFORE IT HEAR HIM? There is. keen sarcasm in this question. Of course it did not, yet they who boasted of their knowledge of the law, were breaking it in their blind rage....
NOT MAN'S TIME BUT GOD'S (John 7:1-9)...
So the officers came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They said to them: "Why did you not bring him here?" The attendants answered: "Never did a man speak as he speaks." So the Pharisees answer...
BEFORE. except (Greek. _ean me)_ first. IT HEAR. it has heard....
ΜῊ Ὁ ΝΌΜΟΣ. Ὁ νόμος is emphatic. ‘You condemn the multitude for not knowing the law; but are we not forgetting the law in condemning a man unheard?’ These learned theologians and lawyers were forgetti...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSES...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
_DIVISION OVER WHO JESUS IS -- JOHN 7:40-53:_ There was division over the identify of Jesus. Some said He was a fraud and deceiver. Others said that He was the Prophet or that He was the Christ. He wa...
ΆΚΟΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) выражает уеловие. ΓΝΦ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать; здесь: быть информированным....
NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO THEM,— From the presence of Nicodemus, this appears to have been a meeting of the council whereof he was a member; for had it been a private cabal of the great men to take away Ch...
THE OLD SABBATH CONTROVERSY RENEWED _Text 7:14-53_ 14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How knoweth thi...
DISCOURSE ON THE LIVING WATER _Text 7:37-52_ 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 38 He that belie...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 7:32-53 The following is a general Outline of the passage which is to be before us:— Before examining in detail the dosing verses of John 7 this will be the bes...
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN BEFORE IT HEAR HIM - rather, 'except it first hear from him' [ ean (G1437) mee (G3361) akousee (G1...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES John 7:1 to John 10:21. Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6, delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go up to Jeru...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 JESUS AND HIS BROTHERS 7:1-9 V1 After this, Jesus stayed in *Galilee. He travelled from village to village. He decide...
DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN? — He identifies Himself with them. He, like they, is an expounder of the Law. The force of the question is in the word “Law,” which they had used but the moment before in t...
CHAPTER 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of...
_Anger of the Sanhedrim on receiving the report of their officers_....
THE BLINDNESS OF PREJUDICE John 7:40-53 These short descriptions of the impressions made on His hearers by the discourses of Jesus indicate the double development which was resulting from His minist...
So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two year...
Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know (n) what he doeth? (n) What the one who is accused has committed....
NICODEMUS VINDICATES HIM John 7:50-52. _“Nicodemus says to them, being one of them, Whether does our law condemn a man until it may first have a hearing with him, and know what he doeth? They responde...
THIRD SECTION: 7:1-8:59. THE STRIFE AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE OF INTENSITY AT JERUSALEM. Seven months had elapsed without any appearance of Jesus at Jerusalem. The exasperation of the rulers, whose murdero...
1. THE TRUE SOURCE: 7:37-52. John reports the discourse of Jesus and gives the explanation of it (John 7:37-39); he describes the different impressions of the multitude (John 7:40-44); he gives an acc...
III. ON AND AFTER THE GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST: 7:37-8:59. The last and great day of the feast has arrived; Jesus lays aside the apologetic form which until now He has given to His teachings. His word a...
“ _Nicodemus, who came to him before by night and who was one of them, says to them_, 51. _Does our law then condemn a man before hearing from him and taking knowledge of what he does?_ 52. _They answ...
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? (46) The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. (47) Then answered them the...
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...
In chapter 7 His brethren after the flesh, still sunk in unbelief, would have Him shew Himself to the world, if He did these great things; but the time for this was not yet come. At the fulfilment of...
DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN,.... Or condemn any man; or can any man be lawfully condemned: BEFORE IT HEAR HIM: what he has to say for himself; is this the usual process in our courts? or is this a leg...
Doth our law judge _any_ man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? Ver. 51. _Doth our law condemn any man_] This was no great matter to say, and yet it did the deed; so God would have it. Now,...
_Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night_ Having now got a little more courage; _being one of them_ Being present, as a member of the great council, _saith to them, Doth our law judge_ (κρινει, conde...
DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN BEFORE IT HEAR HIM AND KNOW WHAT HE DOETH?...
The report of the guard:...
HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lowly...
40-53 The malice of Christ's enemies is always against reason, and sometimes the staying of it cannot be accounted for. Never any man spake with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing cle...
That no law of God or nature condemneth any man before they had heard him speak, or had what he did deposed by witnesses before them, that they might know what he did....
John 7:51 Does G2919 our G2257 law G3551 judge G2919 (G5719) G3361 man G444 before G4386 G
‘Nicodemus, he who came to Him before, being one of them, says to them, “Does our law judge a man unless it first hear from himself and know what he does?” Present among them was Nicodemus, who had pr...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES DISMISS BELIEF IN HIM AS RIDICULOUS (JOHN 7:45). Sitting waiting in their quarters the leading religious authorities were seething. The last thing that they wanted was...
John 7:50-51. NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO THEM (HE THAT CAME TO HIM BEFORE, BEING ONE OF THEM), DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE A MAN, EXCEPT IT HAVE FIRST HEARD FROM HIMSELF AND LEARNED WHAT HE DOETH? Twice already in t...
In this section Jesus appears at the feast to which He went up when His Father's, and therefore His own, hour was come. The opportunity afforded by it of teaching is embraced, and we are presented wit...
DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE A MAN? (μη ο νομος ημων κρινε τον ανθρωπον;). Negative answer expected and "the man," not "a man." These exponents of the law (verse John 7:49) were really violating the law of cr...
John 7:30. _Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracle...
John 7:14. _Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught._ He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15. _And the J...
CONTENTS: Jesus urged to go to the feast. His final departure from Galilee. Jesus at the feast of tabernacles. Prophecy concerning the Holy Spirit. CHARACTERS: God. Jesus, Holy Spirit, disciples, bro...
John 7:1. _He would not walk in Jewry,_ or Judea, _because the jews sought to kill him._ Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same pl...
ACCORDING TO OUR LAW. The Law required justice. Nicodemus uses it to try to help Jesus. NO PROPHET EVER COMES FROM GALILEE. Their anger makes them tell a lie. Jonah, Elijah, and Nahum were all from Ga...
_On the last day, that great day of the feast_ JESUS THE CHRIST I. PROFFERING BLESSINGS. 1. Water for the thirsty (John 7:37; Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11;...
CHAPTER 7 _But after this Jesus walked in Galilee_, &c. Not immediately, but about six months after. The incidents of the former chapter took place in March, the feast of tabernacles was in September....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:41. THE CHRIST.—Hearts open to the truth were convinced and confessed Him. BUT SOME SAID, ETC.—These were unlike the guileless Nathanael (John 1:46). He asked w...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of angry...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of the gospel according to John. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him...
Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:15; Proverbs 18:13...
Any man [τ ο ν α ν θ ρ ω π ο ν]. Literally, the man, whoever he may be, that comes before them. Before it hear him [ε α ν μ η α κ ο υ σ η π α ρ α υ τ ο υ]. Rev., more correctly, except it first hear....