Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 12:48
In the last day Jesus will but ratify the verdict of their own consciences.
In the last day Jesus will but ratify the verdict of their own consciences.
Verse John 12:48. _THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN - SHALL JUDGE HIM_] Ye shall be judged according to my doctrine: the maxims which ye have heard from my mouth shall be those on which ye shall be tried...
HE THAT REJECTETH ME - Luke 10:16. The word “reject” means to despise, or to refuse to receive him. HATH ONE - That is, he needs not my voice to condemn him. He will carry his own condemnation with hi...
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. ...
FINAL SUMMARY OF JESUS-' PUBLIC TEACHING. This summing up of what was most important in the teaching of Jesus throws interesting light on the author's method of recording the speeches. Belief in Jesus...
JUDGE HIM NOT. In declaring that he judges not those who hear his words and believe not, he is not inconsistent. In the day of judgment he shall sit upon the throne, not to condemn the world that he...
Jesus cried and said: "He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. And he who looks upon me, looks upon him who sent me. It was as light that I came into the world, that ever...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
REJECTETH. Greek. _atheteo._ Occurs sixteen times in twelve passages. The others are: Mark 6:26; Mark 7:9; Luke 7:30; Luke 10:16;...
_my words_ Better, _My_ SAYINGS (see on John 12:47): -word" in the next clause is right. _hath one that judgeth him_ Hath his judge already, without My sentencing him. Comp. John 3:18; John 5:45. The...
The Judgment of Christ The Evangelist has just summed up the results of Christ's ministry (37 43). He now corroborates that estimate by Quoting Christ Himself. But as John 12:36 seems to give us the...
THE JUDGMENT OF CHRIST The Evangelist has just summed up the results of Christ’s ministry (37–43). He now corroborates that estimate by quoting Christ Himself. But as John 12:36 seems to give us the c...
ἜΧΕΙ. Hath his judge already, without My sentencing him (John 3:18; John 5:45). The hearer may refuse the word, but he cannot refuse the responsibility of having heard it. For the retrospective use of...
Ver 44. Jesus cried and said, He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me. 45. And he that sees me sees him that sent me. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever b...
_JESUS CAME TO SAVE THE WORLD -- JOHN 12:44-50:_ Jesus spoke of faith in God saying, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me." Jesus mission was to cause people to belie...
ΆΘΕΤΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΘΕΤΈΩ (G114) отставлять в сторону, отвергать, ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать, получать, ΚΡΊΝΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить...
DISCOURSE: 1677 MEN JUDGED BY THE GOSPEL John 12:48. _He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last da...
I AM COME A LIGHT, &C.— "I am _the light of the world, s_ent down from heaven, to dispel the darkness of ignorance, superstition, and wickedness, and to reveal the will of my Father, and the way to et...
THE IMPERATIVE WORDS _Text 12:44-50_ 44 And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me. 4...
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)...
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS...
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...
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...
HE THAT REJECTETH ME... — The word rendered “rejecteth” (more exactly _nullifieth_) occurs only here in St. John. (Comp. Luke 7:30, “The Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against thems...
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,...
Not on that account, however, is the unbeliever scatheless: ὁ ἀθετῶν … ἡμέρᾳ, “he that rejecteth me”; ἀθετεῖν here only in John but used in a similar connection and in the same sense in Luke 10:16; _c...
_A summary of the teaching of Jesus regarding the nature and consequences of faith and unbelief_....
THE COMMANDMENT OF THE FATHER John 12:42-50 The fear of being cast out of the synagogue was a very real one, John 9:22; and the yoke laid on Israel by the Pharisees was a very crushing one. Only a ve...
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...
SUPREMACY OF THE WORD John 12:44-50. _“And Jesus cried out and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me; and he that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me.”_ In this affi...
“ _And if any one hear my sayings and keep them not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world._ 48. _He that rejects me and receives not my sayings has already his jud...
II. THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAITH AND UNBELIEF: JOHN 12:44-50. Israel was not only blinded with reference to the signs; it was deaf as regarded the testimonies which accompanied them, and this is what fin...
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...
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...
48._He who rejecteth me. _That wicked men may not flatter themselves as if their unbounded disobedience to Christ would pass unpunished, he, adds here a dreadful threatening, that though he were to do...
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...
HE THAT REJECTETH ME,.... As the Messiah, with abhorrence and contempt, as many among the Jews did, who would not have him to reign over them, but sought to put him to death: AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WOR...
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Ver. 48. _The word that I have spoken_] If the word...
_Jesus_ On some occasion or other, soon after this, in order to strengthen the faith of those timid and diffident disciples (if such they could be called) last mentioned, and to inspire them with cour...
THE WORD; the gospel, according to their treatment of which men will be judged at the last day....
OF FAITH IN CHRIST AND GOD. John 12:42...
HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM; THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY....
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...
44-50 Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father,...
These words, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, expound the former: not to receive in heart, to believe, and embrace the words of Christ in the gospel, is to reject Christ. So LUKE 10:16, _He that heareth yo...
Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John on account of His assumption of humanity, wishing to show that men shall be judged by the word that He had declared, He says: "Think ye tha...
John 12:48 rejects G114 (G5723) Me G1691 and G2532 not G3361 receive G2983 (G5723) My G3450 words...
A FINAL SUMMARY OF HIS TEACHING (JOHN 12:44). John is now concerned that the last that we hear of Jesus before the hours leading up to His crucifixion will be the essence of His message, a message th...
‘If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge, the word...
John 12:48. HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY SAYINGS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM: THE WORD THAT I SPAKE, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE him IN THE LAST DAY. From the ‘forgetful hearer' whose carelessne...
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...
REJECTETH (αθετων). Present active participle of αθετεω, late _Koine_ verb (from αθετος, α privative, and τιθημ), to render null and void, only here in John, but see Mark 6:26; Mark 7:9.ONE THAT JU...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I WILL NOT JUDGE HIM. The word which he has spoken will measure everyone! God sent the Son into the world to be the world's Savior. God acted in history through Jesus. Because this is true, we may be...
_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...
_If any man hear My words_ I. THE GREATEST SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGE THAT MAN CAN ENJOY. It is a priceless privilege to hear the words of any great sage, poet, moralist. But what are the best human words...
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...
_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 Samuel 10:19; 1 Samuel 8:7; 2 Corinthians 2:15; 2 Corinthians 2:16;...
Rejecteth [α θ ε τ ω ν]. See on Luke 7:30. The word [ο λ ο γ ο ς]. Comprehending all the sayings [ρ η μ α τ α]. The same [ε κ ε ι ν ο ς]. That. The pronoun of remote reference Westcott finely remarks...