(6) Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.
(6) The publishing of the forgiveness of sins by faith in Christ, and the setting forth and proclaiming the wrath of God in retaining the sins of the unbelievers, is the sum of the preaching of the gospel.
JOHN 20:23 avfe,wntai {B} Although the perfect tense avfe,wntai could be regarded as a secondary assimilation to kekra,thntai at the end of the sentence, a majority of the Committee interpreted the p...
Verse 23. _WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT_] See the notes on Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18. It is certain God alone can forgive sins; and it would not only be blasphemous, but grossly absurd, to say that...
WHOSE SOEVER SINS ... - See the notes at Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18. It is worthy of remark here that Jesus confers the same power on all the apostles. He gives to no one of them any special authori...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
THE COMING TO THE DISCIPLES. The first Christian Sunday is spent in Jerusalem, where the disciples are in hiding. The interpretation of Mark 14:50 as implying an immediate flight of the apostles to Ga...
WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM, ETC. There is hardly. passage in the New Testament that has caused more discussion, which is more obscure, unless the proper key to its explana...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
Late on that day, the first day of the week, when for fear of the Jews the doors had been locked in the place where the disciples were, Jesus came and stood in the midst of them, and said: "Peace be t...
SINS. App-128. REMIT. Greek. _aphiemi._ Always translated elsewhere "forgive", when sins or debts are referred to. This authority bestowed upon the apostles and others continued in force with other "g...
_Whose soever sins_, &c. This power accompanies the gift of the Spirit just conferred. It must be noticed (1) that it is given to the whole company present; not to the Apostles alone. Of the Apostles...
ἌΝ ΤΙΝΩΝ�. Comp. ἄφες in the Lord’s Prayer. This power accompanies the gift of the Spirit just conferred. It must be noticed (1) that it is given to the whole company present; not to the Apostles alon...
THE MANIFESTATION TO THE TEN AND OTHERS...
Ver 19. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for feel of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and says to...
_JESUS APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES BUT THOMAS IS ABSENT -- JOHN 20:19-23:_ The disciples gathered on the first day of the week. Fear of the Jewish leaders caused them to meet behind closed doors. Luke t...
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DISCOURSE: 1731 INSPIRATION AND AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTLES John 20:21. _Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you. And when he had said this, he b...
WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM,— St. Luke, Luke 24:35 informs us, that the disciples from Emmaus told their brethren on this occasion, what things were done in the way. Among the rest_,_ n...
THE APPEARANCE TO TEN DISCIPLES _Text: John 20:19-25_ 19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of th...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:11-23 Below is an Analysis of our present passage:— Our Lord had triumphed o’er the grave, "as he said." Before the sun of this world had risen upon the thir...
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE RETAIN...
6 There is a blessed contrast between the resurrection of Lazarus and the vivification of our Lord. Lazarus saw corruption. Christ saw none. Lazarus was raised bound foot and hand with grave clothes a...
WHOSESOEVER SINS YE REMIT] This includes all the means by which, through the ministry of the Word, souls are reconciled to God; e.g. baptism, the preaching of repentance, and moral discipline, as well...
JESUS APPEARS IN THE EVENING TO THE DISCIPLES: see Luke 24:36; (Mark 16:14). According to St. Mark, Jesus appeared 'to the eleven as they sat at meat.' St. John is more precise, noting the absence of...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM... — Comp. for the “power of the keys,” the Notes on Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18. Assuming what has there been said, it will be sufficient to a...
XXIII. _ THOMAS' TEST._ "When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the...
The authorisation of the Apostles is completed in the words: ἄν τινων … κεκράτηνται. “Whosesoever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven to them: whosesoever ye retain, they are retained.” The meaning of...
_Manifestations of the risen Lord to the disciples, first without Thomas, then with Thomas_....
THE RISEN CHRIST BRINGS PEACE John 20:19-25 Evidently our Lord was clothed in the spiritual body of which the Apostle speaks, not subject to the laws governing physical life. Twice He uttered the sal...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
Whose sins you shall forgive, [2] &c. These words clearly express the power of forgiving sins, which, as God, he gave to his apostles, and to their successors, bishops and priests, to forgive sins in...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
VER. 23. The new work which is intrusted to them is here displayed in all its _greatness;_ the matter in question is nothing less than giving or refusing salvation to every human being; to open and cl...
“ _Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be to you! As the Father has sent me, even so I send you._ 22. _And, having said this, he breathed on them and says to them, Receive [the] Holy Spirit._ 23...
1. The appearance of Jesus when the doors were shut (John 20:19; John 20:26) is a point which we are unable to explain. The evangelist has not stated the facts of the case with sufficient definiteness...
II. THE FIRST APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES: JOHN 20:19-23. The risen Lord advances by degrees in His manifestation of Himself. The appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, prepared for by that of the ang...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. (19) Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
_THE REMISSION OF SINS_ ‘Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.’ John 20:23 Twice in the old life before the Passion was this p...
23._To all whose sins you shall remit. _Here, unquestionably, our Lord has embraced, in a few words, the sum of the Gospel; for we must not separate this power of forgiving sins from the office of tea...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT,.... God only can forgive sins, and Christ being God, has a power to do so likewise; but he never communicated any such power to his apostles; nor did they ever assume any s...
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; _and_ whose soever _sins_ ye retain, they are retained. Ver. 23. _Whose soever sins ye remit, &c._] Remission of sin is the chief benefit of t...
_Then said Jesus again, Peace be unto you_ This is the foundation of the mission of a true gospel minister; peace in his own soul, in consequence of his having received pardoning mercy from God throug...
REMIT-RETAINED; the same power and authority are here conferred equally upon all the apostles, and no one is in any respect raised above another. The power conferred was, under the teaching of the Hol...
TWO APPEARANCES TO THE ASSEMBLED DISCIPLES. On the evening of Easter Day:...
WHOSESOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSESOEVER SINS YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RETAINED. Jesus gave His disciples sufficient evidence of His resurrection. On that very same day, in t...
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
19-25 This was the first day of the week, and this day is afterwards often mentioned by the sacred writers; for it was evidently set apart as the Christian sabbath, in remembrance of Christ's resurre...
Whether MATTHEW 18:18 be a parallel text to this, I doubt: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:18". Our Lord here speaks of the sins of persons, WHOSE SOEVER SINS REMIT, & c.; he saith there, _Whatsoever ye shal...
Tertullian On Modesty Touching this difference, we have not only already premised certain antithetical passages of the Scriptures, on one hand retaining, on the other remitting, sins;[45] Tertullian...
John 20:23 forgive G863 (G5632) sins G266 any G5100 G302 forgiven G863 (G5743) them G846 retain...
JESUS APPEARS TO ALL THE APOSTLES APART FROM THOMAS (JOHN 20:19)....
“Of whoever you forgive the sins they have been and are forgiven, and of whoever you retain them they have been and are retained.” Few words have been more misrepresented than these. These words revea...
John 20:23. IF YE SHALL HAVE REMITTED THE SINS OF ANY, THEY HAVE BEEN REMITTED UNTO THEM; IF YE RETAIN THE SINS OF ANY, THEY HAVE BEEN RETAINED. We regard two points as established from what has been...
Mary Magdalene has carried to the disciples the tidings with which she was charged. We have now the first appearance to them of the Risen Lord....
WHOSESOEVER SINS YE FORGIVE (αν τινων αφητε τας αμαρτιας). "If the sins of any ye forgive" (αφητε, second aorist active subjunctive with αν in the sense of εαν), a condition of the third class. Pre...
John 20:21 The Christian Mission I. These words were addressed in the first instance to the apostles then present. But they are likewise addressed, and with no less force, to every one who finds joy...
John 20:19 _(with Mark 16:13; Luke 24:33)_ I. We should misinterpret the incidents of this evening meeting, we should mistake the simple, immediate and precise object which, in using them, our Lord h...
John 20:15 Next to the absence of all notice of our Lord's mother, few things are more remarkable in the narrative of the period after the resurrection, than the silence respecting John. I. John was...
John 20:18. _Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her._ She was a true woman one whom they had known well enough to be quite...
John 20:11. _But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the othe...
John 20:19. _Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and sai...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
IF YOU FORGIVE MEN'S SINS. From Matthew 16:19, we see that the "_keys_" were given to all the apostles. How they used these _"keys"_ is seen from Acts 3:26. Jesus placed an _obligation_ upon them [and...
_Then saith Jesus unto them … as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you_ THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE TWO MISSIONS Christ is the Arch-Missionary and the Arch-Apostle (Hebrews 3:1), at once bot...
_Then the same day at evening_ THE FIRST LORD’S DAY EVENING I. THE ANXIOUS COMPANY. The twelve, with the exception of Judas and Thomas, were gathered and kept together by a community of interest in...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:23 The expressions THEY ARE FORGIVEN and IT IS WITHHELD both represent perfect-tense verbs in Greek and could also be translated, “they have been forgiven” and “it has been withhe...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
"JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES BEHIND LOCKED DOORS LUKE 24:36-43; JOHN 20:19-23; LUKE 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [_be_] unto yo...
28-31 CHAPTER 20 VER. 1. _On the first day of the week._ Literally, of the Sabbath, the week being called the Sabbath, after its principal day, or the day of the Pasch. (see on Mat 28:1) _Mary Magda...
_Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained._ Calvin twists and turns this to make it mean the preaching of the Gospel, namely, that they...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 20:19. EVENING OF THAT DAY.—_I.e._ the day on which our Lord rose from the dead.—WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT.—St. John notices this fact, not only to show how terror...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
1 Corinthians 5:4; 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Corinthians 2:6; Acts 10:43;...
Remit [α φ η τ ε]. Only here in this Gospel in connection with sins. Often in the Synoptists (Matthew 6:12; Matthew 9:5; Mark 2:5; Luke 5:23, etc.)....
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
Whose soever sins ye remit — (According to the tenor of the Gospel, that is, supposing them to repent and believe) they are remitted, and whose soever sins ye retain (supposing them to remain impenite...
Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view that priests have the power to forgive sins? PROBLEM: Roman Catholics claim that Jesus gave His disciples the power to forgive sins and that this pow...
Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view that priests have the power to forgive sins? PROBLEM: Roman Catholics claim that Jesus gave His disciples the power to forgive sins and that this pow...