A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT
John 1:21
John 1:21 Ti, ou=n* Su. VHli,aj ei=* {C}
Confronted with a multiplicity of competing variant readings, the Committee made its choice on the basis of age and diversity of supporting evidence.
John 1:21 Ti, ou=n* Su. VHli,aj ei=* {C}
Confronted with a multiplicity of competing variant readings, the Committee made its choice on the basis of age and diversity of supporting evidence.
Verse John 1:21. _ART THOU ELIAS?_] The scribes themselves had taught that Elijah was to come before the Messiah. See Matthew 17:10; and this belief of theirs they supported by a literal construction...
ART THOU ELIAS? - This is the Greek way of writing Elijah. The Jews expected that Elijah would appear before the Messiah came. See the notes at Matthew 11:14. They supposed that it would be the real E...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTIST'S WITNESS ABOUT HIMSELF. Instead of recounting the work and mission of the Baptist, as the other gospels, the writer selects incidents which show him as the Witness. These incidents are ce...
THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIAS? Malachi (Malachi 4:5) had declared that Elias would precede the Messiah. Hence when John denied that he was the Christ, the next question was whether he was...
This is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him: "Who are you?" He quite definitely affirmed and stated: "I am not the Messiah." So they asked him:...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
WHAT THEN?. What then [are we to say]? ELIAS. Elijah. Referring to Malachi 4:5. THAT PROPHET. the prophet. Referring to Deuteronomy 18:18, Compare Acts 3:22;...
_What then?_ - _What then_are we to think?" or, - _What then_art thou?" _Art thou Elias?_ The Scribes taught that Elijah would come again before the coming of the Messiah (Matthew 17:10), and this be...
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
THE TESTIMONY TO THE DEPUTATION FROM JERUSALEM 19–28. This section describes a crisis in the ministry of the Baptist. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin. It was a time of exciteme...
21. ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν; ‘_What_ art thou _then?_’ or, ‘_What then_ are we to think?’ ἩΛΊΑΣ ΕἾ ΣΎ; The Scribes taught that Elijah would return before the coming of the Messiah (Matthew 17:10), and this belief i...
Ver 19. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? 20. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21. And...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΉΡΏΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ John 1:19. ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать. ΗΛΊΑΣ (G2243) Илия. Эти ожидания основаны на Malachi 4:5-6; ср....
ART THOU ELIAS? AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT.— It is plain by this question, that they were strangers to the parentage of John the Baptist: and with regard to the reply that he makes to this inquiry,there i...
THE JEWS INVESTIGATE JOHN'S IDENTITY _Text 1:19-22_ 19 And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, who art thou? 20 And he confesse...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. AND THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIAS? AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT - that is, n...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
PUBLIC TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO JESUS IN REPLY TO A DEPUTATION FROM THE SANHEDRIN. The independence and fulness of the account of the Baptist in this Gospel renders it highly probable that the evan...
ELIAS] i.e. Elijah, whose personal return to prepare the way of the Messiah was expected by many (Malachi 4:5; Mark 6:15 see especially on Matthew 16:14; Mat
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
WHAT THEN? — Not “What art thou then?” but expressing surprise at the answer, and passing on with impatience to the alternative, “Art thou Elias?” (Comp. on this and the following question, Deuteronom...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
The witness of John to the deputation from Jerusalem, entitled αὕτη ἐστὶν … Λευείτας. The witness or testimony of John is placed first, not only because it was that which influenced the evangelist him...
_The witness of John and its result_....
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, (i) I am not. Art thou (k) that prophet? And he answered, No. (i) The Jews thought that Elias would come again before the days of the Messi...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
I. FIRST TESTIMONY: JOHN 1:19-28. In unfolding in the Prologue the contents of faith, the apostle had adduced two testimonies of John the Baptist (John 1:6-8 and John 1:15); the second contains, as _B...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
VER. 21. “ _And they asked him: what then?Art thou Elijah? And he said I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No._ ” Some interpreters understand the question τί οὖν (_what then?_) in the sa...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
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...
21._Art thou Elijah _? Why do they name _Elijah _rather than Moses? It was because they learned from the prediction of Malachi 4:2, that when the Messiah, _the Sun of Righteousness_, should arise, _El...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIAS?.... Elijah, the prophet; the Tishbite, as Nonnus in his paraphrase expresses it; who was translated, soul and body, to heaven: the Jews had a notion that...
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Ver. 21. _Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not_] _sc._ That Elias that you imagine...
_And this is the record of John_ This is the testimony which he bare publicly to Jesus; _when the Jews_ Namely, the senate, or great council of the nation; _sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem_ Pe...
ELIAS; Elijah. Malachi 4:5; MATTHEW 11:14; Matthew 16:14; I AM NOT; not in their sense-not Elijah in person, though he was Elijah in the sense in which Malachi had predicted him. THAT PROPHET; Jeremia...
AND THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIAS? AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT. ART THOU THAT PROPHET? AND HE ANSWERED, NO....
THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. The embassy of the Jews:...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
THAT PROPHET?: Or, a Prophet...
19-28 John disowns himself to be the Christ, who was now expected and waited for. He came in the spirit and power of Elias, but he was not the person of Elias. John was not that Prophet whom Moses sa...
John was at Bethabara when these messengers came to him, 1 THESSALONIANS 1:28. They asked him if he were @ELIAS. The Jews had not only an expectation of the Messias, but of Elias to come as a messenge...
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul Well, then, was it really in a Pythagorean sense that the Jews approached John with the inquiry, "Art thou Elias? "[251] Origen Commentary on John Book VI "And[34]...
John 1:21 And G2532 asked G2065 (G5656) him G846 What G5101 then G3767 Are G1488 (G5748) you...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
John 1:21. AND THEY ASKED HIM, WHAT THEN? ART THOU ELIJAH? AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT. The question was a natural one, for the thought of the coming of Elijah was intimately associated with that of the co...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
AND THEY ASKED HIM (κα ηρωτησαν αυτον). Here the paratactic κα is like the transitional ουν (then).WHAT THEN? (Τ ουν;). Argumentative ουν like Paul's τ ουν in Romans 6:15. _Quid ergo?_ ART THOU EL...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:19. And this in the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
ARE YOU ELIJAH? The Jews expected Elijah to come before the Messiah. See notes on Matthew 16:14; Matthew 17:10. ARE YOU THE PROPHET? Moses had predicted the coming of the Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15)....
_The record of John_ _ I._ AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF TRUE HUMILITY. 1. John was an eminent saint of God (Matthew 11:11; John 5:35),yet we see him lowly and self-abased. (1) He refuses the honour w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:20 John the Baptist denies being THE CHRIST or ELIJAH. Elijah, who never died (2 Kings 2:11), was expected to return
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:19 Signs of the Messiah, with Teaching about Life in Him. The first half of John’s Gospel features Jesus’ demonstration of his messianic identity through several selected “signs” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_And they asked him_, &c. When John denied that he was the Christ, the messengers asked him if he were Elias. For him God took away, that he might be the forerunner of Christ. And of him they were the...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
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,...
Deuteronomy 18:15; John 1:25; John 7:40; Luke 1:17; Malachi 4:5;...
Art thou Elijah? — He was not that Elijah (the Tishbite) of whom they spoke. Art thou the prophet — Of whom Moses speaks, Deuteronomy 18:15....