Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 2:12
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his (f) brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
(f) That is, his cousins.
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his (f) brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
(f) That is, his cousins.
JOHN 2:12 kai. h` mh,thr auvtou/ kai. oi` avdelfoi. @auvtou/# kai. oi` maqhtai. auvtou/ {C} The manuscripts present many differences as to the sequence of words as well as the omission of one or more...
TO CAPERNAUM - See the notes at Matthew 4:13. NOT MANY DAYS - The reason why he remained there no longer was that the Passover was near, and they went up to Jerusalem to attend it....
CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2:1-22 _ 1. The Marriage in Cana. (John 2:1 .)_ 2. The Temple Cleansed. (John 2:12 .) The second chapter gives the record of the first miracle reported in this Gospel. He manifest...
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THE BRETHREN OF THE LORD. After this he went down to Capernaum. Capernaum was situated on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, and the road thence was "down" from the hill country where Cana wa...
THE NEW EXHILARATION (John 2:1-11)...
After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and they stayed there for a short time. The Passover Feast of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusa...
AFTER. Greek. _meta._ App-104. DOWN. True geographically. Compare "up", John 2:13. CAPERNAUM. Now _Tell Hum._ AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6. CONTINUED. Greek. _meno._ See no...
"Now follows a section of which WE can only say with M. Renan, that it constitutes a decisive triumph for our Gospel.… If it is at all an artificial composition, with a dogmatic object, why should the...
ΚΑΦΑΡΝΑΟΎΜ (preferred by the best editors to Καπερναούμ). 12. This verse alone is almost enough to disprove the theory that the Gospel is a fiction written with a dogmatic object: “why should the aut...
VER 12. AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, HE, AND HIS MOTHER, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS DISCIPLES: AND THEY CONTINUED THERE NOT MANY DAYS. 13. AND THE JEWS' PASSOVER WAS AT HAND, AND JESUS WENT UP...
_JESUS' FIRST PASSOVER DURING HIS PERSONAL MINISTRY -- JOHN 2:12-17:_ Jesus' attendance at this Jewish feast showed His faithfulness and righteousness. His presence also declared the value of worship...
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JESUS MOVES HIS HEADQUARTERS TO CAPERNAUM _Text 2:12_ 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days. _Queries_...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 2:12-25 "After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days" (John 2:12). This...
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM - said to be "down" beca...
1 Cana, in Hebrew, means "acquire". The marriage feast is a sign of the time when the Son acquires the kingdom, and as the bridegroom is elated over the bride, so will He be elated over Israel (Isa_62...
SHORT VISIT TO CAPERNAUM. This unimportant event seems recorded for some personal reason. Perhaps it was the occasion of the first visit of Jesus to the evangelist's own house. BRETHREN] These are var...
THE WEDDING AT CANA. THE TEMPLE CLEANSED 1-11. The marriage at Cana. This miracle is not recorded by the synoptists because it occurred before the beginning of the ministry proper. St. John records it...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS CHANGES WATER SO THAT IT BECOMES WINE 2:1-12 V1 The next day, there was a wedding in Cana in *Galilee. Jesus’ m...
AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM. — For the position of Capernaum comp. Note on Matthew 4:13. It was on the shore of the lake of Tiberias, and He must have gone “down” to it from any locality amon...
CHAPTER 6 THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. “After this He went down to Capernaum, He, and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples: and there they abode not many days. And the Passover of the Jews...
_From Nazareth to Capernaum and thence to Jerusalem_. At John 2:12, as Calvin says, “transit Evangelista ad novam historiam”. This new section runs to the end of the fourth chapter, and gives an accou...
RIGHT AND WRONG USES OF GOD'S HOUSE John 2:12-22 This market was established in the Temple courts, and many evils were associated with it. The animals were sold at exorbitant prices, which made the d...
At Cana our Lord wrought what John describes as the "beginning of His signs." It was a sign of power in the realm of creation, and of it being exercised in answer to faith. It was a sign, moreover, of...
CHAPTER 8 THE MARRIAGE AT CANA 0F GALILEE John 2:1-12. _“On the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.”_ This marriage was the third day after His depar...
SECOND CYCLE: 2:12-4:54. This second cycle is naturally divided into three sections: 1. The ministry of Jesus in _Judea_, John 2:12 to John 3:36; 2. The return through _Samaria: John 4:1-42_; 3. Th...
THIRD SECTION: 2:1-11. THE FIRST MIRACLE. STRENGTHENING OF FAITH. Jesus, after having been declared by John to be the Messiah, manifested Himself as such to His first disciples; an utterance of miracu...
VER. 12. “ _After this, he went down to Capernaum_, _he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples_, _and they abode there not many days._ ” From Cana Jesus undoubtedly returned to Nazareth. Fo...
FIRST SECTION: 2:12-3:36. JESUS IN JUDEA. Here again, as in the preceding story, the course of the narrative is steadily continuous and its historical development accurately graduated. Jesus first app...
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. (13) And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jer...
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...
12._He went down to Capernaum. _The Evangelist passes to an additional narrative; for having resolved to collect a few things worthy of remembrance which the other three had left out, he states the ti...
The third day we find in chapter 2. A marriage takes place in Galilee. Jesus is there; and the water of purification is changed into the wine of joy for the marriage-feast. Afterwards at Jerusalem He...
AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM,.... After he had been at Cana, and at the wedding there: after he had wrought the miracle of turning water into wine; and after he had manifested forth the glory...
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. Ver. 12. _To Capernaum_] Where he had hired him a house; for the...
_After this he went down to Capernaum_ A city that lay near the north part of the sea of Galilee, and on the south border of the land of Naphthali. See note on Matthew 4:13. Here Christ and his discip...
CAPERNAUM; Matthew 4:13....
THE FIRST PURGING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS RESULTS. A brief stay at Capernaum: AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, HE, AND HIS MOTHER, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS DISCIPLES; AND THEY CONTINUED THERE NOT...
A MARRIAGE ON THE THIRD DAY (vs.1-12) Now we are told of a third day, and a marriage in Cana. This is typical of Israel's new relationship with their Messiah and the receiving of the joy of His mirac...
12-22 The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a market-place of its courts. Those now ma...
CAPERNAUM was a city lifted up to heaven, for mercies of all sorts, which Christ foretold, MATTHEW 11:28, should be brought down to hell, for their contempt of his doctrine and miracles. It was in the...
Cyprian Epistle II But the hireling, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf scatter-eth them."[5] Origen Commentary on John Book X "After...
John 2:12 After G3326 this G5124 down G2597 (G5627) to G1519 Capernaum G2584 He G846 G2532 His...
‘After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they remained there not many days.' The writer now remembers vividly how, after this incident, they wen...
HELPING AT A WEDDING AND CLEANSING THE TEMPLE - JOHN 2 The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1). The incident at the wedding in Cana of Galilee is said by the writer to be the first of Jesus' ‘signs'. This bri...
In the passage before us we have the first section of the third great division of our Gospel. Jesus leaves the circle of His disciples, and begins His public work. This is done at Jerusalem, after a f...
John 2:12. AFTER THIS HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM. Nazareth, not Cana, would appear to be the place from which Jesus ‘went down' (from the hill-country of Galilee, comp. chap. John 4:47; John 4:49;...
HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM (κατεβη εις Καφαρναουμ αυτος). Second aorist active indicative of καταβαινω. Cana was on higher ground. This brief stay ( NOT MANY DAYS , ου πολλας ημερας) in this importa...
CONTENTS: The marriage at Cana and the first miracle of Jesus. The passover and the purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: Jesus, mother, disciples. CONCLUSION: Those who expect the favors of Chris...
John 2:1. _The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee,_ when the sun of righteousness shone out with divine glory. Cana of Galilee is here mentioned to distinguish it from Cana near Sidonia...
JESUS AND HIS MOTHER, BROTHERS. The natural meaning of this is that these were his brothers in the flesh, sons of Mary. His sisters in the flesh are mentioned in Matthew 13:55-56; Mark 6:3. No hint is...
_After this, He went down into Capernaum_ CHRIST AT CAPERNAUM It is not needful to inquire what His errand was there, and upon what occasion His mother and brethren went with Him; whether because Jos...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 2:12 WENT DOWN. Cana was in the hill country. CAPERNAUM was at the Sea of Galilee, about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Cana. Capernaum served as Jesus’ headquarters after John the Ba...
CHAPTER 2 _On the third day_, &c. _The third day_, that is, from Christ's departure for Galilee, and the calling of Philip. For this was the last date mentioned by S. John. The following is the sequen...
_After this Jesus went down_, &c. After the marriage Jesus returned with His Mother and friends to their house at Nazareth. Nazareth was situated upon higher ground, so that He would descend from it t...
EXPOSITION VERSES 2:1-3:4 _The testimony of signs to the glory of the Word made flesh._ JOHN 2:1 (1) _The first sign, the beginning of signs, Mastery over the old creation. Sign of love and power....
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 Corinthians 9:5; Acts 1:13; Acts 1:14; Galatians 1:19; John 6:17;...
He went down [κ α τ ε β η]. Capernaum being on the lake shore, and Nazareth and Cana on the higher ground....
THE FATHER'S HOUSE John 2:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The connecting link. The connecting verse between the last study and this one, is John 2:12. In that verse we read that Jesus went to Capernaum, H...
Observe here, 1. How obedient in all things Christ was to the ceremonial law. he was not naturally subject to the law, but, to fulfil all righteousness, he kept the passover yearly, according to the c...