Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 10:31
(10) Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
(10) Christ proves his dignity by divine works.
(10) Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
(10) Christ proves his dignity by divine works.
Verse 31. _THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES_] To stone him as a blasphemer, Leviticus 24:14-3, because he said he was _one with God_. The evangelist adds the word _again_, because they had attempted to do thi...
THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES - Stoning was the punishment of a blasphemer, Leviticus 24:14. They considered him guilty of blasphemy because he made himself equal with God, John 10:33. AGAIN - They had befo...
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...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM. The word "again" carries us back to chapter 8:52. These high ecclesiasts held that he had just been guilty of blasphemy in asserting that he and the F...
The Jews again lifted up stones to stone him. Jesus said to them: "I have showed you many lovely deeds, which came from my Father. For which of these deeds are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answer...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
AGAIN. See John 8:59. TO. Greek _hina,_ as in John 10:10....
_Then the Jews_ Better, THEREFORE _the Jews:_their picking up stones was a direct consequence of His words. But -therefore" should perhaps be omitted. They prepare to act on Leviticus 24:16 (Comp. 1 K...
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
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...
ἘΒΆΣΤ. ΠΆΛΙΝ. They prepare to act on Leviticus 24:16 (comp. 1 Kings 21:10). Πάλιν refers to John 8:59, where we have ἧραν for ἐβάστασαν. The latter implies more effort; ‘lifted up, bore:’ but we canno...
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
Ver 31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him, 32. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?" 33. The Jews answered hi...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΈΒΆΣΤΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΑΣΤΆΖΩ (G941) подбирать, ΠΆΛΙΝ (G3825) снова (_см._ John 8:59). ΛΙΘΆΣΩΣΙΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΙΘΆΖΩ (G3034) побивать камнями. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель. Они...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES— As a full proof in what sense our Lord's hearers understood him, we find that they took up stones, and were going to kill him, in obedience, as they supposed, to the law,...
CLAIMS TO DEITY _Text 10:22-31_ 22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: 23 it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 The Jews therefore came roun...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. THEN THE JEWS - the rulers again, as in , TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM - and for precisely the same thing as before, the claim of equality wi...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
AGAIN] see John 8:59. 34-36. If the fallible and sinful judges of Israel were rightly called 'gods,' much more may I, who am one with the Father and free from sin, claim the title of 'the Son of God....
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
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...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN. — Better, _The Jews therefore_... Their action follows as an effect caused by His words. The word “again” reminds us that they had done this two months before, at t...
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...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
Ἐβάστασαν οὖν … αὐτόν. In chap. John 8:59, ἦραν λίθους, so now once more, πάλιν, they lifted stones to stone Him....
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...
Then took up stones, &c. because, they said, being a man, thou makest thyself God. The Jews, says St. Augustine, understood well enough what the Arians will not understand, that from Christ's words it...
THE ASSAULT John 10:30-39. “ _I and My Father are one_.” There is but one God, but three persons _i.e._, three characters manifested by the Deity to the world. I am a preacher, a teacher, and a book e...
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. Vv. 22-32. 1. The argument presented by Godet, as against Meyer, Weiss and others, seems satisfactory as showing that Jesus probably left Jerusalem and its ne...
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 ...
VER. 31. “ _The Jews therefore brought stones again to stone him._ ” Οὖν, _therefore_, by reason of the blasphemy (John 10:30); comp. John 10:33. _Weiss_ claims that, even understanding the words of J...
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...
31._Then the Jews again took up stones. _As true religion, in maintaining the glory of God, burns with its own zeal which the Spirit of God directs, so unbelief is the mother of rage, and the devil hu...
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...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM. As they had done before, John 8:59;...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Ver. 31. _Then the Jews took up stones_] This is the world's wages to faithful ministers. Many conceit discharge of their duty without persecution; th...
_My sheep hear my voice_, &c. Our Lord still alludes to the discourse he had had before this festival. As if he had said, My sheep are those who, 1st, _Hear my voice_ by faith; 2d, Are _known_ (that i...
The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:...
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM....
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...
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanc...
Tumultuously, as we read they did once before, 1 THESSALONIANS 8:59. From whence we may learn with what design they came to Christ, 1 THESSALONIANS 10:24, plainly to tell them whether he were the Chri...
John 10:31 Then G3767 Jews G2453 up G941 (G5656) stones G3037 again G3825 to G2443 stone G3034 ...
‘The Judaisers carried stones to stone him.' Some of the Judaisers did recognise what He meant and were inflamed. To then this was blasphemy! Whatever their motives at the beginning they now lost con...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:31. THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM. Their view of the blasphemy of His words is given more fully in John 10:33. The word ‘again' carries us back to chap. John 8:59, where a similar...
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...
TOOK UP STONES AGAIN (εβαστασαν παλιν λιθους). First aorist active indicative of βασταζω, old verb to pick up, to carry (John 12:6), to bear (Galatians 6:5). The παλιν refers to John 8:59 where ηραν...
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...
THE FATHER AND I ARE ONE. Jesus declares a UNITY exists between he and the Father [and the Holy Spirit], without limitations or restrictions. PICKED UP STONES. [Herod had rebuilt the temple, but it wa...
_Then the Jews took up stones again_ RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE persecutes a man on account of I. HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. The Jews took up stones merely because Christ had proclaimed a doctrine which wa...
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:31 PICKED UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM. See notes on 8:59; Acts 7:58....
_The Jews therefore look up stones to stone Him_, as a blasphemer. The Jews show in this their hypocrisy, malignity, and hatred of Christ, and that they did not honestly, but craftily and insidiously,...
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
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...
1 Samuel 30:6; Acts 7:52; Acts 7:58; Acts 7:59; Exodus 17:4;...
Took up - again [ε β α σ τ α σ α ν - π α λ ι ν]. Again refers to John 8:59. It seems as though a different verb is purposely chosen here (compare hran took up, in John 8:59), since the interview took...
Observe here, 1. How the Jews understood our Saviour affirming, that he and the Father are one; that is, one in essence and nature, and himself. person equal with God. This they looked upon as blasphe...