ἀλλʼ ἔγνωκα … but I know you, etc.; that is, I know why you do not receive me; the reason is that you have not the love of God in yourselves, and therefore cannot appreciate or understand one who acts in concert with God; if therefore they did offer Him homage, it could not be God in Him they worshipped (Holtzmann). [The motive of Jesus in making His claims is a subject inviting inquiry and full of significance.]
Verse 42. _BUT I KNOW YOU, THAT YE HAVE NOT_, c.] Don't say that you oppose me through zeal for God's honour, and love for his name, because I make myself equal to him: no, this is not the case. I kn...
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...
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...
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...
KNOW YOU. He read their hearts. THE LOVE OF GOD. Love of God is always manifest in obedience to his will. The rejection of Christ, who came in the Father's name, was proof that they were without th...
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...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
LOVE OF GOD. love toward God. Genitive of Relation. App-17. Occurs in the Gospels elsewhere only in Luke 11:42. YOU. yourselves, as in John 6:53.Mark 4:17; 1
_But I know you_ Once more Christ appears as the searcher of hearts; comp. John 1:47; John 1:50; John 2:24-25; John 4:17-18;...
_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_....
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...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
ἜΓΝΩΚΑ. _I have come to know_ and therefore I KNOW: comp. κέκραγα (John 1:15), ἥλπικα (John 5:45), οἶδα (John 5:32). Once more Christ appears as the searcher of hearts; comp....
41–44. _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_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
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...
_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...
ΈΓΝΩΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Терминативный perf. предполагает, что знание о них, которое Христос имеет в настоящем, основано на Его прошлом опыте, ΌΤ (G3754) передает содержание...
DISCOURSE: 1632 MEN’S WANT OF LOVE TO GOD John 5:42. _I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you_. OUR blessed Lord “needed not that any should testify of man: for he himself knew perfectly...
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...
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...
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...
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. BUT I KNOW YOU, THAT YE HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD IN YOU - which would have inspired you with a single desire to know His mind and will, and...
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...
5:42 you. (a-14) Lit. 'yourselves.'...
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...
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...
YE HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD. — The principle which excludes the seeking honour from men, is the love of God. They were, they said, jealous for God’s honour. The first precept of the Law, and the found...
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...
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....
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...
But I know you, that ye have not the (r) love of God in you. (r) Love toward God....
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.”...
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....
“ _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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
42._That you have not the love of God in you. The love of God _is here put for all religious feelings; for no man can _love God _without beholding him with admiration and submitting entirely to his au...
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...
BUT I KNOW YOU,.... Being the omniscient God, he knew not only their persons, but their hearts, the thoughts of their hearts; what was in them, and what was wanting in them: particularly, THAT YE HAV...
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. Ver. 42. _Ye have not the love of God_] Though ye pretend zeal for his glory, to your opposing of me, yet there is _aliud in titulo, aliud in...
_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...
HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD; this was the reason why they would not embrace him as the Messiah. Compare chap John 8:42. The reason why men do not receive the words of Christ and treat them as true, is, t...
The authority of the Scriptures:...
BUT I KNOW YOU THAT YE HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD IN YOU....
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...
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...
You pretend a great deal of religion, and to do many things out of love to God, and a zeal for the glory of God; but though you can cheat others, yet you cannot deceive me: I, that search the heart, a...
John 5:42 But G235 know G1097 (G5758) you G5209 that G3754 not G3756 have G2192 (G5719) love...
“But I know that you do not have love for God (literally ‘the love of God' where the genitive is objective) within yourselves. I am come in my Father's name and you do not receive me, if another comes...
John 5:42. BUT I KNOW YOU, THAT YE HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD IN YOU. I know, that is, I have discerned you, I have read your hearts. Love to God is the foundation of the spirit of self-sacrifice, throu...
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...
BUT I KNOW YOU (αλλα εγνωκα υμας). Perfect active indicative of γινωσκω, "I have come to know and still know," the knowledge of personal experience (John 2:24).THE LOVE O' GOD (την αγαπην του θεου...
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...
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...
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...
BUT I KNOW YOU. This is fact! He could look deep down inside them to see what they really were. WITH MY FATHER'S AUTHORITY. If they had really loved God, they would have believed in Jesus. WHEN SOMEON...
_Ye have not the love of God in you_ THE SIN OF NOT LOVING GOD I. WHAT IS IT TO LOVE GOD? Hereunto is required 1. Knowing of Him. 2. Our choosing Him as our portion and sovereign good Deuteronomy 2...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
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....
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...
_But I know you_, &c. "I know and penetrate the inmost recesses of your hearts (for I, being God, am the Searcher of hearts), and I see in them nothing of Divine love, but that they are full of ambiti...
_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...
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
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...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 4:20; Hebrews 4:12; Hebrews 4:13;...
I know [ε γ ν ω κ α]. See on 2 24. The love of God. Love toward God. This was the summary of their own law. The phrase occurs elsewhere in the Gospels only in Luke 11:42. In you [ε ν ε α υ τ ο ι ς]. R...
But I know you — With this ray he pierces the hearts of the hearers. And this doubtless he spake with the tenderest compassion....