John 12:41 o[ti {B}
A majority of the Committee preferred o[ti to o[te, chiefly because of the age and weight of the supporting evidence (î66, 75 a A B L X Q Y ¦1 33 al), but also because o[ti appears, on the surface, to be somewhat less appropriate in the context than either o[te or evpei, (W), and so would be likely to provoke scribal alteration.
Verse 41. _WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY_] Isaiah 6:1, c. _I saw Jehovah_, said the prophet, _sitting upon a throne, high and_ _lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the_ _seraphim and o...
WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY - Isaiah 6:1. Isaiah saw the Lord (in Hebrew, יהוה Yahweh) sitting on a throne and surrounded with the seraphim. This is perhaps the only instance in the Bible in which Yahweh is...
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
FAILURE IN JUDÆ A. The many signs have failed to convince. The author explains this by the prediction in Isaiah 53:1, the arm of the Lord being interpreted of Messiah. And the ultimate cause is also d...
HE HATH BLINDED THEIR EYES, AND HARDENED THEIR HEART. This explains why they could not believe. Whether they were morally responsible for their unbelief depends on how God blinded their eyes and harde...
When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them. Although he had done such great signs in their presence they did not believe in him. It happened thus that the word which Isai...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
WHEN. Greek _hote._ All the texts read _hoti,_ because. GLORY. Greek. _doxa._ One of the characteristic words in John's Gospel. See John 1:14. OF. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104....
_when he saw_ The better reading is, BECAUSE _he saw_. We had a similar double reading in John 12:17, where -when" is to be preferred. In the Greek the difference is only a single letter, ὅτε and ὅτι....
The Judgment of the Evangelist S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
ὍΤΙ for ὅτε: comp. John 12:17. 41. ὍΤΙ ΕἾΔΕΝ. BECAUSE _he saw_. Here, as in John 12:17, authorities vary between ὅτι and ὄτε, and here ὅτι is to be preferred. Christ’s glory was revealed to Isaiah in...
THE JUDGMENT OF THE EVANGELIST S. John here sums up the results of the ministry which has just come to a close. Their comparative poverty is such that he can explain it in no other way than as an ill...
Ver 37. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38. That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our repo...
_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
ΕΊΔΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ, _см._ John 12:9....
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS, WHEN, &C.— He uttered these remarkable words, when in vision he saw the glory of the Son of God, and the manifestations which he was to make of the divine counsels; and descr...
A PERPETUAL PROPHECY _Text 12:37-43_ 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 12:37-50 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 12:— "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them" (John 12:36)...
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS, WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY, AND SPOKE OF HIM. A key of immense importance to the opening of Isaiah's vision ...
37 What better proof could be found that they were walking in darkness than their rejection of the Man of Sorrows? The prophets plainly foretold their action and yet they are too much in the dark to s...
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS (Isaiah)] Strictly speaking, God said them to Isaiah about Isaiah's own contemporaries, but St. John sees in the passage a typical prophecy of the unbelief of the Jews in the...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
CAUSE OF THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS. At first they could believe, but refused. By and by they became incapable of it. In this too common experience St. John sees the judgment of God: cp. Romans 9-11....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS, WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY. — The better text is,... _because he saw His glory._ (Comp. Note on the reading in John 12:17.) The result of seeing His glory was that he spake of Him...
V. _ RESULTS OF CHRIST'S MANIFESTATION._ "But though He had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on Him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,...
John's view of prophecy is given in the words Ταῦτα … αὐτοῦ. “The Targum renders the original words of Isaiah ‘I saw the Lord' by ‘I saw the Lord's glory'. St. John states the truth to which this expr...
In the verses which follow, John 12:37-43, _John accounts for the unbelief of the Jews_. This fact that the very people who had been appointed to accept the Messiah had rejected Jesus needed explanati...
BELIEF MAY BECOME IMPOSSIBLE John 12:30-41 The question of the Greeks led our Lord's thoughts to His death. He saw, too, the baptism of suffering through which His followers must pass. From all this...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
JUDICIAL BLINDNESS OF THE JEWS John 12:37-41. _“He, having performed so many miracles in their presence, they did not believe on Him, in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet may be fulfilled, whi...
VER. 41. “ _This did Isaiah say, when he saw his glory and spoke of him._ ” John justifies in this verse the application which he has just made to Jesus Christ of the vision of Isaiah 6. The Adonai wh...
THIRD SECTION: 12:37-50. RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT THE MYSTERIOUS FACT OF JEWISH UNBELIEF. This passage forms the close of the second part of the Gospel (John 12:1-36). The evangelist interrupts his nar...
I. THE CAUSES OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 12:37-43. If the Jews are the chosen people, prepared of God to the end of receiving the Messiah and of carrying salvation to other nations, ought they not to ha...
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
41._These things spoke Jesus. _Lest readers should think that this prediction was inappropriately quoted, John expressly states, that the prophet was not sent as a teacher to a single age, but, on the...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS,.... Concerning the blinding and hardening of the Jews: WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY, AND SPAKE OF HIM; when he saw, in a visionary way, the glory of the Messiah in the temple, and...
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. Ver. 41. _When he saw his glory_] His train only in the temple, Isaiah 6:1, where the seraphims are said to hide their faces with tw...
_Though he had done so many miracles before them_ So that they could not but see them; _yet they believed not on him_ That is, in general they did not; being hardened in their infidelity. _That the sa...
HIS GLORY; the glory of Christ, called by Isaiah the glory of Jehovah. Isaiah 6:1....
The fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy:...
THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY AND SPAKE OF HIM. The results of Christ's entire ministry, on the whole, had been very discouraging. Neither His words nor His miracles had had the desir...
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
37-43 Observe the method of conversion implied here. Sinners are brought to see the reality of Divine things, and to have some knowledge of them. To be converted, and truly turned from sin to Christ,...
The evangelist saith, that these things ESAIAS SAID, WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY, AND SPAKE OF HIM. Isaiah's sight of God's glory is described, ISAIAH 6:1, _I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and li...
John 12:41 things G5023 Isaiah G2268 said G2036 (G5627) when G3753 saw G1492 (G5627) His G846 glory...
‘Therefore they could not believe, for Isaiah again said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to he...
The public ministry of Jesus has been brought to a close, and the moment has been marked by words the melancholy pathos of which can hardly be mistaken, ‘Having gone away, He was hidden from then' (Jo...
John 12:41. THESE THINGS SAID ISAIAH, BECAUSE HE SAW HIS GLORY; AND HE SPAKE CONCERNING HIM. When we remember that the chapter of Isaiah from which the quotation of John 12:39-40 is taken is that in w...
BECAUSE HE SAW HIS GLORY (οτ ειδεν την δοξαν αυτου). Correct reading here οτ (because), not οτε (when). Isaiah with spiritual vision saw the glory of the Messiah and spoke (ελαλησεν) of him, John sa...
John 12:37. _But though he had done so many miracles before then, yet they believed not on him._ They had an opportunity of seeing with their eyes; what the Christ could do. He had even raised the de...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead; and this miracle made a great sensation among the people. They came to meet Jesus, waving palm branches before him, and all Jerusalem was on a stir. John 12:19....
Our Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead, and this miracle had excited great attention in Jerusalem. In consequence of this, the people had led him in triumph through the streets, and everywhere ther...
John 12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would...
Our Lord had gained a sudden popularity through raising Lazarus from the dead, and the people had attended him with great enthusiasm as he rode through the streets of Jerusalem. For the time, things l...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
_But though He had done so many miracles … yet they believed not on Him_ OUR LORD’S MINISTRY I. ITS DETAILS. 1. The doctrines He taught (John 12:44). These words are an abridged statement of our Lor...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:41 The plural THESE THINGS most likely refers to the general context of Isaiah 53:1 and...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
_These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spake of Him._ The glory of Christ the Incarnate Son of God, who is spoken of in what preceded, and what follows. So SS. Augustine, Cyril, and all...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:37. The Evangelist’s statement of the causes of Jewish unbelief, and of the timidity of many who believed, which prevented them confessing Christ. John 12:37...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
1 Peter 1:11; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Acts 10:43; Exodus 33:18; Hebrews 1:3
When [ο τ ε]. The best texts read oti, because. His glory. In the vision in the temple, Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 6:5. Of Him. Christ....
When he saw his glory — Christ's, Isaiah 6:1, &c. And it is there expressly said to be the glory of the Lord, Jehovah, the Supreme God....