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Verse 25. _WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN?_] Baptism was a very common
ceremony among the Jews, who never received a proselyte into the full
enjoyment of a Jew's privileges, till he was both baptized and
ci...
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WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN ... - Baptism on receiving a proselyte from
“paganism” was common before the time of John, but it was not
customary to baptize a “Jew.” John had changed the custom. He
baptized...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word;
His Glory and His Manifestation
-- Chapter 1:1-2:22
CHAPTER 1
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1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
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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...
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WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN?
This question shows that John's baptism was, to them,. new rite. They
could understand that Christ, or Elias, or "that prophet" might
establish. new ordinance by the divine au...
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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:...
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THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
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BAPTIZEST... ? App-115. They expected baptism, from Eze 86:25.
IF. App-118....
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_Why baptizest thou then?_ -What right have you to treat Jews as if
they were proselytes and make them submit to a rite which implies that
they are impure?" Had they forgotten Zechariah 13:1; Ezekiel...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΒΑΠΤΊΖΕΙΣ. What right have you to treat Jews
as if they were proselytes and make them submit to a rite which
implies that they are impure? Comp. Zechariah 13:1. Βαπτίζω is
the intensive form...
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VER 24. AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES. 25. AND THEY
ASKED HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, WHY BAPTIZE YOU THEN, IF YOU BE NOT THAT
CHRIST, NOR ELIAS, NEITHER THAT PROPHET? 26. JOHN ANSWERED THE...
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_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...
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ΉΡΏΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ John 1:19. Этот
вопрос относится уже не к его
личности, а к его власти (Haenchen).
ΒΑΠΤΊΖΕΙΣ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907)
крестить. _Praes._ изображает
повторяю...
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WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN,— The Jews, it seems, had conceived an
opinion that they were all to be baptized, either by Messiah himself,
or by some of his retinue; which they drew from Zechariah 13:1.thou...
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JOHN'S ANSWER
_Text 1:23-28_
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He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
24
And they had been sent from the Pharisee...
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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...
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And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if
thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN, IF
THOU...
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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...
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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...
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WHY BAPTIZEST THOU?] Baptism was ordinarily administered only to
proselytes. The meaning of the challenge seems, therefore, to be,
'What right hast thou, who art neither the Messiah, nor his forerunne...
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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...
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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...
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WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN? — Baptism, which was certainly one of the
initiatory rites of proselytes in the second or third century A.D.,
was probably so before the work of the Baptist. It is not baptism...
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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...
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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...
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_The witness of John and its result_....
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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...
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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...
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And they asked him, and said unto him, (l) Why baptizest thou then, if
thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
(l) By this we may prove that the Jews knew there should be some
chang...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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VER. 25. “ _And they asked him and said unto him; why baptizest thou
then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet._ ”
The strictest guardians of rites conceded, indeed, to the Messiah...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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25._Why then dost thou baptize _? By laying down those three degrees,
they appear to form a very conclusive argument_: if thou art not the
Christ, nor Elijah, nor a prophet_; for it does not belong to...
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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...
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AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... They put a question, by
saying to him,
WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN, IF THOU BE NOT THAT CHRIST, NOR ELIAS,
NEITHER THAT PROPHET? since he denied that he was the...
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And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if
thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
Ver. 25. _Why baptizest thou then?_] Why dost thou innovate anything
in th...
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_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_ Who were peculiarly
tenacious of old customs, and jealous of any innovations, (except
those brought in by their own scribes,) unless the innovator had
unqu...
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The question concerning John's baptism:...
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AND THEY ASKED HIM AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN, IF THOU
BE NOT THAT CHRIST, NOR ELIAS, NEITHER THAT PROPHET?...
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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...
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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...
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The Pharisees themselves would allow the Messiah, or Elias, or a
prophet, to make any additions to or alterations in the worship of
God, but none else: hence it is they ask, by what authority he
bapti...
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Origen Commentary on John Book VI
But John, on the contrary, who knew that He whose forerunner he was
was both the Christ and the prophet thus foretold, answered "No;
"whereas, if they had asked if h...
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John 1:25 And G2532 asked G2065 (G5656) him G846 G2532 saying G2036
(G5627) G846 Why G5101
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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...
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‘And they asked him and said to him, “Why then are you baptising
if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?”
They were puzzled by his baptism. They recognised that it must have
some great r...
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WHY THEN BAPTIZEST THOU?
(Τ ουν βαπτιζεισ;). In view of his repeated denials
(three here mentioned).IF THOU ART NOT
(ε συ ουκ ε). Condition of first class. They did not interpret
his claim to be ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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WHY DO YOU BAPTIZE? The fact that they are mystified shows they were
unfamiliar with the rite of baptism. If John were the Messiah, or
Elijah, or the Prophet, they could understand why he would introd...
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_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_
THE QUESTION OF THE PHARISEES
1.
It is an evidence of a sick and corrupt Church when corrupt men are
entrusted with most grave and weighty employments i...
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_The record of John_
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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...
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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” ...
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THE
HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,
ACCORDING TO JOHN.
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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...
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_ 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...
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_And they asked him_, &c. "These Pharisees," says S. Cyril, in their
arrogancy insult John, as though they said, Neither Elias, nor
Eliseus, nor any of the other prophets dared to take upon themselves...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Acts 4:5; Acts 5:28; Daniel 9:24; John 1:20; Matthew 21:23...
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They asked him, Why baptizest thou then? — Without any commission
from the sanhedrim? And not only heathens (who were always baptized
before they were admitted to circumcision) but Jews also?...