Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 1:36
(16) And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
(16) Christ is set before us to follow, not as a vain shadow, but as our Mediator.
(16) And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
(16) Christ is set before us to follow, not as a vain shadow, but as our Mediator.
Verse 36. _AND LOOKING UPON JESUS_] _Attentively beholding_, εμβλεψας, from εν, _into_, and βλεπω, _to look _- to view with steadfastness and attention. He who desires to discover the glories and exc...
LOOKING UPON JESUS ... - Fixing his eyes intently upon him. Singling him out and regarding him with special attention. Contemplating him as the long-expected Messiah and Deliverer of the world. In thi...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTIST'S DISCIPLES AND JESUS. On the morrow to two of his disciples John bears similar witness. The account in its details suggests the recollections of one to whom the incident bad been the turn...
BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD! On the preceding day John had recognized Jesus in. public discourse as "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." Now he personally points the disciples to him....
On the next day John was again standing with two of his disciples. John looked at Jesus as he walked. "See!" he said, "The Lamb of God!" And the two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus. Je...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
LOOKING UPON. having fixed his gaze on. Greek. _emblepo._ App-133. Occurs in John only here, and John 1:42. WALKED. was walking about....
_looking upon_ HAVING LOOKED ON with a fixed penetrating gaze. Comp. John 1:42; Mark 10:21; Mark 10:27; Luke 20:17;...
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....
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...
THE TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO ANDREW AND JOHN...
ἘΜΒΛΈΨΑΣ. Indicates a fixed, penetrating gaze. Comp. John 1:42; Mark 10:21; Mark 10:27; Luke 20:17;...
VER 35. AGAIN THE NEXT DAY AFTER JOHN STOOD, AND TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES; 36. AND LOOKING UPON JESUS AS HE WALKED, HE SAID, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD! CHRYS. Many not having attended to John's words at fir...
_THE ETERNAL WORD NEEDS FAITHFUL DISCIPLES -- JOHN 1:35-42:_ John 1:35-42 gives an account of Jesus calling His first disciples. The key to discipleship is "following Jesus." (John 1:37) God can use a...
ΈΜΒΛΈΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΜΒΛΈΠΩ (G1689) смотреть на кого-л.; предполагает внимательное, пристальное наблюдение (Bernard), ΑΜΝΌΣ (G286) агнец (_см._ John 1:29). ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΟΎΝΤΙ _praes. act. part....
AND LOOKING UPON JESUS— _Looking steadfastly on Jesus,_ seems the exact signification of the original εμβλεψας. See on John 1:29....
ANDREW, PETER AND AN UNNAMED DISCIPLE _Text 1:35-42_ 35 Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples; 36 and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and saith, Behold the Lamb of Go...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:35-51 We first submit a brief Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. We would divide it as follows:— 1. John points to Christ as God’s Lamb, John...
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! AND LOOKING, [ emblepsas (G1689 ), FIXING HIS EYES WITH SIGNIFICANT GAZE] UPON JESUS AS HE WALKED. Observe, it is not said t...
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...
PRELIMINARY CALL OF FIVE APOSTLES, ANDREW, JOHN, PETER, PHILIP, AND BARTHOLOMEW (peculiar to Jn). This account, so far from conflicting with the (later) call described Matthew 4:18; Mark 1:15; (cp. Lu...
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...
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...
AND LOOKING UPON. — Better, _and he looked upon Jesus as He was walking, and saith._ The word “looked upon” expresses a fixed, earnest gaze. (Comp. John 1:42; Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:21;...
CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST DISCIPLES. “Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples; and he looked upon Jesus as He walked, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard...
_Witness of John to two of his disciples and first self-manifestation of Jesus as the Christ_. Bengel entitles the section, John 1:35-42, “primae origines Ecclesiae Christianae”; but from the evangeli...
The Baptist, ἐμβλέψας τῷ Ἰησοῦ, having gazed at, or contemplated (see Matthew 6:26, ἐμβλέψατε εἰς τὰ πετεινά, and especially Mark 14:67, καὶ ἰδοῦσα τὸν Πέτρον … ἐμβλέψασα) Jesus as He walked, evidentl...
_The witness of John and its result_....
HOW JESUS WINS FOLLOWERS John 1:35-42 On this third day John again looked eagerly and wistfully on Jesus as He walked. He spoke of Him again as God's Lamb, and there was a significance in His words t...
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...
DISCIPLES OF JESUS John 1:35-43. “On the following day, John again stood, and two of His disciples, and looking upon Jesus walking about, says, Behold the Lamb of God. And the two disciples heard Him...
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...
III. THIRD TESTIMONY: VV. 35-37. Vv. 35, 36. “ _On the next day, John was again standing there, and two of his disciples with him;_ 36, _and fixing his eyes upon Jesus as he passed he saith: Behold t...
Again, the next day after, John stood, and two of his disciples: (36) And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! (37) And the two disciples heard him speak. And they follow...
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...
_A REPEATED EFFORT_ ‘Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as He walked he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and th...
36._Behold the Lamb of God! _Hence appears more clearly what I have already stated, that when John perceived that he was approaching the end of his course, he labored incessantly to resign his office...
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...
AND LOOKING UPON JESUS AS HE WALKED,.... Either by them; or as he was going from them to his lodgings; it being toward the close of the day, when John had finished his work for that day, and the peopl...
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! Ver. 36. _Behold the Lamb of God_] _Eximius ille agnus et singularis, _ that notable Lamb, typed out by the paschal lamb, and by...
_The next day, John stood, and two of his disciples_ John happening the next day to be with two of his disciples on the banks of Jordan, he saw Jesus passing by a second time, and repeated what he had...
AND LOOKING UPON JESUS AS HE WALKED, HE SAITH, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD!...
THE FIRST DISCIPLES OF JESUS. Some of John's disciples heed his testimony:...
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...
29-36 John saw Jesus coming to him, and pointed him out as the Lamb of God. The paschal lamb, in the shedding and sprinkling of its blood, the roasting and eating of its flesh, and all the other circ...
SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 1:35...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews For this cause I was born, and for this cause I am come into the world, that I might bear testimony to the truth. Every one that is of...
John 1:36 And G2532 at G1689 (G5660) Jesus G2424 walked G4043 (G5723) said G3004 (G5719) Behold...
DISCIPLES BEGIN TO GATHER TO JESUS (JOHN 1:35). The great teachers of Israel would often have bands of ‘disciples' who gathered round them to learn from them, and then to pass on their teaching. Here...
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...
‘Again on the next day John was standing, and two of his disciples, and he looked on Jesus as he walked and says, “Behold, the Lamb of God”. And the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jes...
The same general subject is continued in this section Jesus taking His place on the stage of history. We pass now, however, from the witness of the Baptist, given on two successive days, to the manife...
John 1:35-36. IN THESE VERSES WE HAVE A NEW TESTIMONY BORNE BY THE BAPTIST TO JESUS. In John 1:29 we were simply told that John ‘seeth Jesus coining unto him and saith;' _to whom_ the words were spoke...
HE LOOKED (εμβλεψας). First aorist active participle of εμβλεπω, antecedent action before λεγε (says).AS HE WALKED (περιπατουντ). Present active participle in dative case after εμβλεψας and like ε...
John 1:35 The First Disciples. I. We see here the very first beginnings of the Christian Church. With what reverent interest may we meetly regard this simple record of the beginning of that great kin...
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...
John 1:29. _The next day_ This chapter is a record of the events that occurred on different days. Sometimes God does great things in a single day; one extraordinary day may have more in it than a hun...
John 1:29. _The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the world._ John lost no time. He had no sooner discovered the Saviour than...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
HERE IS THE LAMB OF GOD! The day before, John had cited Jesus as the _"Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"_ Now he personally directs his own disciples to Jesus....
_Behold the Lamb of God!--This is the main business of the preacher._ Had John been an eloquent declaimer of repentance merely, he would have missed his life-work. As the stars called “the Pointers”...
_The next day_ THE FIRST UTTERANCES OF THE WORD 1. A searching question. 2. A gracious invitation. 3. An encouraging promise. 4. A Divine command. 5. A heart revelation. 6. An assurance of a p...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:36 LAMB OF GOD. See note on v. 29. ⇐...
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” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T 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...
_ 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...
_And seeing Jesus as he walked,_ &c. As though he said, "Behold Christ like a spotless Lamb, destined for a victim, that He may be offered to God upon the cross, for the sins of the whole world." When...
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...
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...
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,...
1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 1:20; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 45:22; Isaiah 65:1;...
FOLLOWING CHRIST John 1:36 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We delight in the study of John the Baptist. Christ said that he was the greatest man born of woman, yet he was not self-centered or proud. Had he been...
PETER THE FISHER OF MEN John 1:35 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come to the study of one of the outstanding Apostles of the Cross. Whatever you may think of Peter, and his failures, you must grant that he...