Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 10:42
Although John was dead, his influence was still strong in this district, and the people were ready to believe that He to whom John had borne witness was the true Messiah.
Although John was dead, his influence was still strong in this district, and the people were ready to believe that He to whom John had borne witness was the true Messiah.
Verse John 10:42. _MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE._] The people believed on him: 1. because of the _testimony_ of _John_ the _Baptist_ whom they knew to be a good and a wise man, and a prophet of the Lor...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
MANY RESORTED TO HIM. This Perean ministry was fruitful for "many believed on him," this being due to the fact that "all things John spake of this man were true." What were the incidents of this last...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
BELIEVED. See App-150. ON. Greek _eis._ App-104. THERE. Emphatic, in contrast with His treatment in Jerusalem....
_many believed on him there_ -There" is emphatic. - _There_,...
"The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis -where John at first baptized" … -John did no miracle: but all...
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...
40–42. “The chapter ends with a note of place which is evidently and certainly historical. No forger would ever have thought of the periphrasis ‘where John at first baptized’ … ‘John did no miracle: b...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE DISCOURSE...
VER 39. THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM: BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND, 40. AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE. 41. AND MANY R...
_PEOPLE PUT THEIR FAITH IN JESUS -- JOHN 10:39-42:_ Again the Jewish leaders wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped. Just how Jesus avoided capture we are not told. Jesus crossed the Jordan to the pla...
ΈΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΈΎΩ, _см._ John 10:38....
JOHN DID NO MIRACLE:— John was not endued with the power of working miracles, that the authority of Jesus might be more conspicuous and unquestionable. We hence see how strong a confirmation of our Lo...
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
AND MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE. — The word “there” is, in the best texts, in a position of emphasis. “And _there_ many believed on Him.” It marks the contrast between the rejection in Jerusalem and th...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
JESUS AT BETHANY, PEREA John 10:40-42. “ _And again He went away beyond Jordan_, _into the place where John was first baptizing_, _and there abode. Many came to Him_, _and continued to say_, _That Joh...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
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...
“ _And he went away again beyond the Jordan, into the place where John had baptized at the beginning;and he abode there._ 41. _And many came to him, and they said: John did no miracle; but all that Jo...
REFLECTIONS Reader! you and I here plainly discover that Christ is the good Shepherd. Both his office, relation, and character, under this sweet figure, he is chosen into by God the Father, and all hi...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
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...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
AND MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE., Through the doctrine he preached, the miracles he wrought, and through comparing these things with what John had said of him: this shows the reason of Christ's leaving...
And many believed on him there. Ver. 42. _And many believed on him there_] Place is no prejudice to the powerful operation of the word, when by the Spirit it is made prolific and generative....
_And_, presently departing from Jerusalem, _he went again beyond Jordan_ Into Perea, a country for the most part desert and rocky; _the place where John at first baptized_ Called Bethabara, John 1:28;...
Jesus leaves Jerusalem:...
AND MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE. The argument of Jesus at least made so much impression that the Jews dropped the stones, but they still had the intention of arresting Him; but Jesus, in the power of H...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to d...
Some believed on him as such whom John Baptist had spoken him to be; others possibly believed on him in the sense mentioned 1 THESSALONIANS 2:23; not to the saving of their souls, but as one sent of G...
John 10:42 And G2532 many G4183 believed G4100 (G5656) in G1519 Him G846 there G1563...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
John 10:41-42. AND MANY CAME UNTO HIM; AND THEY SAID, JOHN DID NO SIGN: BUT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER JOHN SPAKE OF THIS MAN WERE TRUE. AND MANY BELIEVED IN HIM THERE. How great the contrast between the s...
MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE (πολλο επιστευσαν εις αυτον εκε). See John 1:12; John 2:11 for same idiom. Striking witness to the picture of the Messiah drawn by John. When Jesus came they recognized th...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
JESUS WENT BACK AGAIN. See John 1:28. Jesus had spent nearly three months in Jerusalem in a stormy ministry. Twice they attempted to "mob" him (John 8:59; John 10:31). Twice they attempted to arrest h...
_Therefore they sought again to take Him_ I. MORAL INCORRIGIBILITY. What was the result of Christ’s appeal to His works and to their law? Of His noble life and strong logic? Were their prejudices bro...
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
John 11:45; John 12:42; John 2:23; John 4:39; John 4:41;...