And hath given him authority, &c.— This may refer not only to the future and final judgment upon the sons of men, but also to the inflicting of temporal judgments; and possibly our Lord had the destruction of Jerusalem more particularly in his eye,—an exercise of judgment which he constantly ascribed to himself. See Philippians 2:9; Philippians 2:11 and the next note.
Verse 27. _BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN._] Because he is the _Messiah_; for in this sense the phrase, _Son of man_, is often to be understood. But some join this to the next verse thus:- _Marvel_ _not...
HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY - Hath appointed him to do this. Has made him to be judge of all. This is represented as being the appointment of the Father, Acts 17:31. The word “authority” here (commonly r...
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...
THE SON'S DEPENDENCE ON THE FATHER. JUDGMENT AND LIFEGIVING. To the charge of blasphemy He answers that a son can only do what he has learned to do by watching his father, who out of love shows him ho...
SON OF MAN. These verses affirm that God has not only given to the Son to have life in himself, or to be. fountain of life, but has also made him, the judge of mankind, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN,...
This is the truth I tell you--the hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and, when they have heard, they will live. For, as the Father has life in himself, so h...
This is the truth I tell you--the Son cannot do anything which proceeds from himself. He can only do what he sees the Father doing. In whatever way the Father acts, the Son likewise acts in the same w...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
AUTHORITY. Greek. _exousia._ See App-172. THE SON OF MAN (see App-98). The only occurance in John without the Article (except Revelation 1:13; Revelation 14:14). Compare Daniel 7:13....
_Hath given him authority to execute judgment also_ Better, GAVE _Him authority to execute judgment_, when He sent Him into the world. -Also" is not genuine. See on John 1:12, and comp. John 10:18. _b...
_The intimacy of the Son with the Father proved by the twofold power committed to the Son_(a) _of communicating spiritual life_, (b) _of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead_....
The Father imparts to the Son the power of raising the spiritually dead. It is very important to notice that -raising the dead" in this section is _figurative_; raising from moral and spiritual death:...
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...
ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ ἜΔΩΚΕΝ. GAVE _Him authority_ (John 1:12; John 10:18), when He sent Him into the world. Aorists mark what was done once for all. ὍΤΙ ΥἹῸΣ�. ἘΣΤΊΝ. _Because He is_ A SON OF MAN, i.e. not becaus...
THE PREROGATIVES AND POWERS OF THE SON OF GOD...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
21–27. The Father imparts to the Son the power of raising the spiritually dead. It is very important to notice that ‘raising the dead’ in this section is _figurative_; raising from moral and spiritual...
21–29. _The intimacy of the Son with the Father proved by the twofold power committed to the Son_ (a) _of communicating spiritual life_, (b) _of causing the bodily resurrection of the dead_....
VER 27. AND HAS GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. 28. MARVEL NOT AT THIS: FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE...
_THE AUTHORITY OF THE SON OF GOD -- JOHN 5:19-30:_ In a lengthy reply to the Jews Jesus gave proof of His deity and ministry. Jesus declared that the Son can do nothing on His own. As the Son of God,...
ΚΡΊΣΙΝ ΠΟΙΕΪ́Ν осуществлять суд. Инфинитив-дополнение к основному гл. ΈΔΩΚΕΝ. ΌΤ потому что. ΥΙΌΣ ΆΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ Сын Человеческий (DJG, 775-81). Без артикля подчеркивает человечность, либо является аналог...
POWERS INHERENT IN THAT DEITY _Text 5:24-29_ 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath pa...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:16-30 We present our customary Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. It sets forth the absolute equality of the Son with the Father:— There is an...
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. AND HATH GIVEN HIM (OR, AS BEFORE, 'GAVE HIM') AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO - as well as to quicken whom...
10 The day on which the cure was effected indicates that its fulfillment will find place in that great sabbatism that remains for God's people of the Circumcision (Heb_4:9). As a pallet was a mere bun...
BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN] rather, 'because He is _man_,' lit. 'a son of man.' As man He can sympathise with the nature which he shares: cp. Hebrews 4:15....
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...
HATH GIVEN. — As above, _gave._ The “also” after judgment should be omitted. In these verses, as before, the two relations of Father — Son, Life — Judgment, are emphatic. Both Life and Judgment can be...
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...
Not only has the Father given to the Son this great prerogative, but καὶ ἐξουσίαν … ἀνθρώπου ἐστί. κρίσιν ποιεῖν, like _judicium facere_, and our _do judgment_, is used by Demosthenes, Xenophon, Polyb...
THE FATHER WORKING THROUGH THE SON John 5:19-29 The relationship of our Lord to the Father was such that He felt Himself competent to fulfill all the functions of the Divine Being. Is it God's prerog...
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...
And hath given him (i) authority to execute judgment also, because he is (k) the Son of man. (i) That is, high and sovereign power to rule and govern all things, in so much that he has power over lif...
_To execute judgment, because he is the Son of man; or, because, he is God made man, and is to come to judgment in a visible manner, to judge all men. (Witham)_...
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 phase: the _spiritual_ resurrection and _moral_ judgment of humanity by the Son....
VER. 27. “ _And he hath given him power also to execute judgment, because he is son of man._ ” Jesus had said in John 5:22, in an indefinite way, that _all_ judgment is committed to Him. This word _al...
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...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. XXVIII. Vv. 19-29. 1. The reference in John 5:19 ff., to the union between the Son and the Father is to the complete union in working, which is founded upon...
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....
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...
27._And hath given him power. _He again repeats that the Father hath given him dominion, that he may have full power over all things in heaven and in the earth. The word ( ἐξουσία) here denotes _autho...
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...
AND HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO,.... Both in his church and kingdom, in the present state of things, and at the last day, when all shall stand before his judgment seat: and that...
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Ver. 27. _Because he is the Son of man_] Or, as he is the Son of man. _a_ By virtue of the hypostatical union, his...
_Verily, he that heareth my word, &c., hath everlasting life_ Such a person is already entitled to it, yea, it is already begun in his soul, and he shall shortly possess it in its full perfection: _an...
BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN; it is the appointment of the Father that he who redeems and judges men should himself be the Son of man; that is, the Word made flesh. In this character God has appointed...
The greater miracles:...
AND HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. Since the miracle and the words of Jesus had not yet convinced the Jews, He here points forward to two miracles whi...
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...
24-29 Our Lord declared his authority and character, as the Messiah. The time was come when the dead should hear his voice, as the Son of God, and live. Our Lord first refers to his raising those who...
TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO; to have the power of life and death, the keys of both; to rule and govern the world, and to judge it at the last day. BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN: ACTS 17:31, _He hath appoi...
Origen Commentary on John Book I That distinction may, I think, if carefully examined, be applied to the Father and the Son; the Son being righteousness, and having received power[177]...
John 5:27 and G2532 given G1325 (G5656) Him G846 authority G1849 execute G4160 (G5721) judgment G2920 also...
“And he has given him the authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.” Not only does Jesus give life now, but as the Son of Man He has been given the authority to execute judgment. The...
THE SON HAS THE POWER TO OFFER EVERLASTING LIFE NOW (JOHN 5:24). He now goes on to reveal His uniqueness by the fact that He can both give men eternal life now, and will be responsible both for man's...
JESUS CONFIRMS THEIR VIEW OF HIS EQUALITY WITH GOD AND POINTS TO THE RESURRECTION (JOHN 5:19). Jesus now expands on His claim to be co-equal with the Father. He does not want them to be in any doubt,...
John 5:27. AND HE GAVE HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT, BECAUSE HE IS A SON OF MAN. The Son ‘maketh to live,' but He maketh to live ‘whom He will'(John 5:21), or (as we read in John 5:25), He giveth...
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...
BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN (οτ υιος ανθρωπου εστιν). Rather, "because he is a son of man" (note absence of articles and so not as the Messiah), because the judge of men must partake of human natur...
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...
WHEN THE DEAD WILL HEAR THE VOICE. The spiritually dead, such as the man in John 5:5. But this means the resurrection as well, as Jesus says in John 5:28. BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. Jesus is THE So...
_The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God._ THE SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION I. Its SUBJECTS. The spiritually dead, in trespasses and sins. To have life we “must...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:27 SON OF MAN echoes Daniel 7:13; see note on John 1:51....
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....
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_And hath given_, &c. Because Christ as God hath life in Himself, from hence, in that He is man, He hath power to judge all men. The word _because_ must here be taken specifically, and means _inasmuch...
_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 Corinthians 15:25; 1 Peter 3:22; Acts 10:42; Acts 17:31; Daniel 7:1
Authority. See on 1 12. Also. Omit. The Son of man. Better, a son of man. The article is wanting. The authority is assigned to Him as being very man. John uses the article everywhere with this phrase...
Because he is the Son of man — He is appointed to judge mankind because he was made man....